Stein explains recount push outside Trump Tower

She says it’s “optimistic” to think the county will get through more than 130,000 ballots by the deadline.

Stein, whose efforts have already triggered recounts in Wisconsin and MI, compared Pennsylvania’s voting machines to electoral “black sites” that can not be examined by voters or candidates, in a complaint filed Monday in Philadelphia federal court. Stein had 51,463 votes, or 1.1 percent, according to the Michigan State Board of Canvassers. Saturday’s court filing to withdraw the case said the Green Party-backed voters who filed it “are regular citizens of ordinary means” and can not afford the $1 million bond ordered by the court by 5 p.m. Monday.

The federal lawsuit came after Stein announced on Saturday she was dropping the recount effort in Pennsylvania, citing the $1 million bond, as too high a cost for the “regular citizens of ordinary means”, who filed the lawsuit on the Green Party’s behalf.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has scheduled oral arguments for 4 p.m. Tuesday. “On the other hand we need to organize so we do have effective political resistance”, she said at the time.

The Green Party is trying to force a federal court order for a statewide recount in Pennsylvania.

In Ingham, 20 two-member teams worked to recount the ballots Monday, with challengers and observers from campaigns and elections staff circling the room as well.

In the recounts that we’ve done before, there have been some small changes in the numbers but the outcome has always been the same.

At least a million votes cast in Wisconsin have been recounted as of December 4, and the results haven’t changed much. President-elect Donald Trump won by a margin of about 10,700 votes in MI. It did not provide a full tally of the votes lost or gained for the candidates.

And it’s unclear what it will cost. If the margin of difference is less than.5 percent, then state taxpayers pay for it. “They can not afford to post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court”. That is the “safe harbor” deadline to guarantee Michigan’s 16 electoral votes are counted when the electoral college meets six days later.

John Snow, Grand Traverse County Democratic Party says, “So far with our assistance over 80 volunteers have been trained that will be working as challengers to the recount effort”.

There is absolutely no evidence of widespread voter fraud, much less that there were millions of illegal voters. “I’m retired. I made a decision to come and check it out because if there isn’t voter fraud I want them to stop talking about it”.

“I had to find a location that would hold my workers and I asked the township clerks to send me out a list of anybody they think would be good to work in the recount”.