Trump Officially Wins Michigan As Possible Recount Looms

Former Green Party nominee Jill Stein called for a recount in Wisconsin and Pennsylvannia and is reportedly planning to request one in MI.

Stein has raised more than $6 million to pay for these recounts. This year was the first time in nearly three decades that a Republican presidential candidate won the Wolverine State.

Stein, too, hasn’t provided evidence of voting irregularities. He says the answer is a hand recount of 4.8 million ballots.

“The goal is to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the election“, said attorney Mark Brewer, the former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party, who has been retained by the Stein campaign to lead the Michigan recall effort.

The recount is scheduled to begin on Thursday.

Combined with the fact that 18 percent of voters in one poll do not view this presidential election’s results as legitimate, Stein says, voters can not be asked to trust computerized recount systems. Stein intends to challenge the ruling in court.

Among Wisconsin (10), Pennsylvania (20) and MI (16), no two states contain enough electoral votes to change the outcome, so the results in all three states would have to be declared invalid to deny Trump’s presidency. Indeed, Dr. Stein has also criticized our decision to participate in the recount. Stein has already officially asked for recounts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

“The claims of voter fraud in Virginia during the November 8 election are unfounded”. And in some key states, this presidential race was exceptionally close.

On Wednesday, the commission staff will explain the process to all county clerks and canvass members taking part in the recount.

Stein’s Wisconsin recount request, and lawsuit, included an affidavit from University of MI computer scientist J. Alex Halderman who said a hand recount is the only way to determine whether there could have been a cyberattack that affected the results.

The drama, disputes and falsehoods that permeated Donald Trump’s presidential campaign are now roiling his transition to the White House, forcing aides to defend his baseless assertions of illegal voting and sending internal fights spilling into public. She says “cyber hacking” affected the vote outcomes in those states.

“The people have spoken and the election is over”, Miller said. Donald Trump leads the Electoral College count. Clinton, however, maintains a more than 2 million vote advantage in the popular vote count. “Now, he’s demonizing them for his losing the [popular vote]”.

State officials did not require each county to tally its results by hand – so it is possible county vote canvassing boards that opt to re-tabulate machines’ results could face lawsuits seeking a change in methodology.

Wisconsin must complete the recount by December 13 or face losing control of its 10 electoral votes to Congress.

“In the end, this is all about people trusting the system”, he said, “and a manual recount is the only way to assure people that they can trust the system”. It wants a full hand recount of the votes in counties that use opti-scan machines, which are similar to machines that scan standardized tests.

Both Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Independent presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente on Friday requested a recount.

State officials said they expect the recount to uphold Trump’s win-but Stein’s efforts have highlighted widespread voter outrage at the election results.

MI is the tightest of the three states. The campaign also says that on Wednesday it will request a MI recount.

Stein’s attorneys called University of MI computer scientist J. Alex Halderman as their first witness during Tuesday’s hearing.

In fact, Trump has expressed confidence the results will stand – writing Sunday on Twitter that “nothing will change” and calling Democrats’ participation in the recount process “sad”. He says the records in the equipment could have been manipulated in an attack.