With no evidence, Trump claims millions voted illegally

Stein is pushing for a hand count of the almost 3 million ballots cast in the state, but the commission left it up to local election officials to determine the best method. “But now they’re starting to say, ‘This is a lie, this is a lie, this is a lie'”.

Pence is said to be among those backing Romney for State. MI will be easier for Stein to request, but Pennsylvania has different rules about who can request a recount and how.

The recount request was motivated by doubts expressed by several scientists regarding the vote tallies after detecting coincidences in Trump’s lead in counties where electronic voting machines were used.

Stein is on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her own failed Green Party presidential bid.

“We have to go through every single one of these and manually verify to determine if the voters vote is validly cast”, Vu said.

Padilla told KCRA 3 there is no proof of any voter fraud in California.

“They are misinterpreting” with regard to any finding of fraud, said David Becker, who at the time was the director of Pew’s elections program. Join us in a conversation about world events, the newsgathering process or whatever aspect of the news universe you find interesting or important.

New Hampshire allows people to vote if they consider the state their “domicile”, rather than their “residence”.

Under laws passed in MI in 2014, recounts are costly for the people requesting them.

“This is certainly not Bush v. Gore”, Haas said. “As we have noted before, we remained confident in the overall integrity of electoral infrastructure, a confidence that was borne out on election day”.

Trump was doing this to make the case that he didn’t actually lose the popular vote, which has become a Democratic rallying cry following Clinton’s loss.

Stein and the Green Party have been leading the fight for a recount here, in Wisconsin, and in Pennsylvania and MI.

Instead, Republican Donald Trump won all three and with them the electoral votes needed to win the White House. Trump claims he would have taken the popular vote had it not been for the so-called rigged system. “There’s always some on the edges, but I’ve not seen anything on the [level of] millions, I don’t know what he was talking about”. In New Hampshire, the AP’s vote totals were reported directly to the news agency by town clerks and were verified by AP in most towns before the count was completed. Later, he called into question the results in three states he lost to Clinton without offering any evidence.

Stein has raised more than $6 million to pay for these recounts.

Co-host Mika Brzezinski, after reporting that Clinton’s campaign has made a decision to participate in Wisconsin’s recount and playing Trump saying he would “accept a clear election result”. “Supporters of #Recount2016 were against our Voter ID initiatives”.

Such requests are not automatically granted, and Trump would have seven days in which to object to the recount request, potentially pushing the process toward mid-December.

Elections officials were adamant that a hack was all but impossible.