But according to the BBC, Jill Stein, presidential candidate of the Green Party, has now filed a recount request in the state of Wisconsin.
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Stein said Friday in a Facebook video that she’s initiating the Wisconsin recount because of concerns about hacking into voting machines and tampering with the results.
President-elect Donald Trump pressed forward Friday with two more administration picks, as failed Green Party candidate Jill Stein took new steps to force recounts across key Midwestern battlegrounds that could complicate Trump’s push for national unity.
Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said Saturday that it will participate in a recount of the votes cast in Wisconsin’s election.
The paperwork for the Wiscionsin recount was filed in time for the Friday deadline, while for Pennsylvania the deadline is Monday and for Michigan Wednesday. Her campaign, however, has openly acknowledged the unlikeliness a recount will significantly alter the election’s result. She managed to quickly raise almost $5 million for that effort – far more than she could ever attract to her own campaign.
Wisconsin uses paper ballots that are counted by machine scanners and Direct Recording Electronic systems that generate a paper record. Recounts often increase the vote tallies of both candidates.
His words echoed those from the White House, which said in a statement to the New York Times on Friday the election results “accurately reflect the will of the American people”.
As NPR’s Camila Domonoske told the Newscast unit, “Some security and election experts have publicly called for paper ballots to be checked in Wisconsin, Florida and MI, to make sure that the computers that counted those ballots weren’t hacked”. The footnote also appears to have been edited, according to Law Newz, which claimed that it initially said the money would go toward “election integrity efforts” if the campaign came up short of the fundraising goal – and now it says that any “surplus” would go toward those efforts.
Donald Trump received 2 million fewer votes than Clinton nationally, but won the presidency in the electoral college.
Clinton’s campaign has not yet formally challenged the election results, although a number of Democrats and supporters are encouraging it to do so.
The President-elect said he won Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvanian by “large numbers” and noted his margin of more than 70,000 in Pennsylvania. The report will focus on results in key battleground states. The recount could begin by the second half of next week.The Stein/Baraka campaign is looking for volunteers to observe the recount in every county.
On Saturday in the United States, the Trump transition team in a statement called the Green Party’s request for recounts “ridiculous”.
During the campaign, Clinton criticized Trump for refusing to say that he would accept the election results if Clinton won.
The money is needed to post bonds for recounts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and MI. Trump won Wisconsin by just 27,000 votes so that would be enough to switch the voter.
Trump’s statement did not mention Clinton, whose campaign said Saturday it will take part in the recounts, joining with Stein. The board is expected to complete the recount by December 13.
In an interview, Stein said that Clinton “is not different enough” from Trump, a NY real-estate businessman, to enable her or the Democratic Party “to save your job, save your life, or save the planet”. They estimate the process could cost as much as $1 million, which Stein’s campaign will have to cover.
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Halderman said in a post on Medium that there are serious security flaws in the USA election process that could be exploited by hackers, and checking the paper ballots in 2016 would be a security safeguard to preserve voter confidence and deter prospective attackers in future elections.
