- “The Commission is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States”
- Stein, who earned little more than 1 percent of the national vote, formally requested a Wisconsin recount Friday afternoon, vowing to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
- Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Mark Morgan issued a statement calling the recount request “absurd and nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines Wisconsin’s election process.”
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein officially filed a request to election officials Friday to conduct a recount in the battleground state of Wisconsin.
State Elections Commission Administrator Mike Haas said Stein filed the request around mid-afternoon Friday, about an hour and a half ahead of a 5 p.m. CST deadline.
“The Commission is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States,” Haas said in a press release. “We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount, we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice.”
Stein, who earned little more than 1 percent of the national vote, formally requested a Wisconsin recount Friday afternoon, vowing to do the same in the coming days in Michigan and Pennsylvania. There is no evidence of election tampering in the states where Trump scored razor-thin victories, but Green Party spokesman George Martin insisted “the American public needs to have it investigated to make sure our votes count.”
Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Mark Morgan issued a statement calling the recount request “absurd and nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines Wisconsin’s election process.” Republican Sen. Devin LeMahieu, who chairs the Senate elections committee, said he would re-examine state law next year to ensure “a candidate who received 1 percent of the vote cannot hold the results of an election hostage.”
Martin said Republicans’ response was expected and stressed that the recount was about determining whether the system was secure, not who won or lost the fight for Wisconsin’s 10 electoral college votes. During a news conference in Milwaukee, Martin said Stein’s campaign would also ask for a “reconciliation” of voting records that would go beyond an audit, but he didn’t provide details.
Stein’s campaign has been raising money online to cover the costs of recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. She says she wants to make sure hackers didn’t skew the results in those swing states. The campaign had raised about $5.2 million as of Friday afternoon.
Late Tuesday, Stein issued a press release calling on supporters to raise $2.5 million to fund a recount effort in three states that Donald Trump won – Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
Wisconsin law calls for the state to perform a recount at a candidate’s request as long as he or she can pay for it. The state has never performed a presidential recount. Election officials estimate the effort will cost up to $1 million.
The state is working under a federal deadline of December 13 to complete the recount.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Jill Stein a third party Presidental Canidate got the least of the counts . the recount will not help her nor even Hillary to win the Election. It is a waste of time and money. Jill and Hillary need to accept the results.
With 1% of the vote how can she ask for recount. Just a way to undermine the next president.
What is in this for Jill Stein? The only way Hillary could have possibly win the popular vote is by the rigged vote….Illegal Alien vote, dead people vote, the democrats that vote 3 and 4 times, stuffing paper ballot boxes with fake ballots then switching the fake for the real ballots, the electronic machines that would switch Trump votes to Hillary, then the machines that would show you had voted to Trump, but register for Hillary…you would think you had cast your ballot for Trump, but it would register for Hillary.
For Jill Stein to use Hillary’s lawyers….that should be conflict of interest…these lawyers are here to help put Hillary into the
Whitehouse….Hillary is the most corrupt person to have ever run for office, she should be sitting behind bars…her hands are dripping with blood. Hillary can hardly wait to do a nuclear strike on Russia…the very thought of her in the Whitehouse makes me absolutely ill…she’s not only a threat to the US she is a threat to the whole world. I really thought Jill Stein was a decent person…she has proven that she is on the same page as Hillary, just a disgrace to the whole election process. Hillary has this idea, feeling that the Whitehouse belongs to her, she will stop at nothing to place herself in the Whitehouse. I have news for Hillary….give up, go home Hillary, we’ve had enough of the Clintons, she is a criminal that always walks free…anyone else that had done the things Hillary has done would be sitting behind bars….my wish is to see her back end walking off into the Sunset…I hope the day is quickly approaching that Hillary will soon pay for her crimes…she is a very nasty, evil woman…she does not belong in the Whitehouse. Some one told me she was going to try to get Trump declared insane…What I say to Hillary, she is the one who is insane. Trump / Pence will make the best team ever…Trump has told is it his cabinet that they are there to serve the people…I also received an email that said Lets make America Great again, it looks like it is working…business are getting ready to come back to the USA…why would any one in their right mind want Hillary in the Whitehouse? Another thing Hillary and the DNC keep saying the election was hacked by Russia…Russia DID NOT hack this election…that is another one of Hillary’s lies…Hillary doesn’t know how to tell the truth…I repeat again Russia did NOT hack the election. George Soros put out $25 million dollars to put his queen Hillary in the Whitehouse…if Hillary ends up in the Whitehouse George Soros will have bought the USA for $25 million dollars. Anyone thinking they voted for Hillary, they did not. They voted for George Soros. I am wondering how long it would take Hillary to make the US treasury her piggy Bank?
Because the evil witch lost!!!!!…..SIMPLE!!!
The race was won squarely by trump and stien is a poor loser or she has been threatened by death tovdo this by Hillary or she is an idiot!!! If anyone cheated it was the dems with millions of illegal votes and other crap they pulled !!
It is a waist of time,and money because it isn’t going to change anything.To quote Obama”We won get over it”.
What a bunch of sore losers! Jill Stein is a joke and an embarrassment, but make no mistake Hillary Clinton is behind the recount!
What a disgrace this is for a 1% candidate to contest…follow the money trail…suspect dem operatives are behind this…did Hillary lie AGAIN ranting about Donald not honoring election results…IRONIC isn’t it!
She has no solid evidence that any fraud took place. Jill Stein says she speaks for all the American voters with no authorization from all voters to do this. I never told her, like many others, that she could speak for me. Why is Jill Stein not asking for a recount in California or New York, which is a more likely place for fraud to occur. It’s because Clinton won that state, and it’s possible that thousands of illegal aliens voted there. She clearly has her own agenda, which benefits herself and Hillary Clinton, so she should not insult the public’s intelligence by telling us that this has nothing to do with helping her BFF Hillary Clinton! Really, Jill Stein needs to STOP! She is a burden to the American People by stealing their hard earned tax dollars and creating chaos. No better than a STREET THUG!