The Wisconsin Election Commission will oversee a statewide vote recount, but the clock is ticking. It will cost our counties. Wednesday is the deadline to seek a recount in MI. The Elections Commission timeline assumes it would receive payment for the recount on Tuesday, which would allow it to begin on Thursday. Elections Commission officials have said they strongly doubt that could have happened. That leaves it up to each of the state’s 72 counties whether to perform the recount by machine or by hand. Stein said all of this needs to be done by Monday, though she didn’t give an exact time.
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Trump is also the first Republican to win the state of MI in a presidential contest since 1988, confirming his historic dominance in the Midwest, where he also won in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Commissioners rebuffed allegations election equipment may have been hacked or tampered with.
All three states rejected Trump’s claim.
With the victory, Trump’s Electoral College total formally surpassed the 300 mark, a feat for a GOP White House hopeful also last achieved by the 41st president.
A state elections board officially declared Republican Donald Trump the victor of the presidential election in MI.
At Monday’s meeting, Thomsen called Trump’s comments “unfortunate” and “insulting”. On Twitter this weekend, Trump repeatedly slammed the possible recount efforts in the Rust Belt states where he upset Clinton. But she still aims to raise $800,000 more to cover fees for attorneys and other personnel needed to oversee the recount, said an official with her campaign.
While Stein’s efforts for a hand recount were joined earlier in the day by Democrat Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Bailey-Rihn said she didn’t feel as though she could overrule the decisions of individual county clerks.
Wisconsin Green Party co-chairman George Martin said the party is seeking a “reconciliation of paper records” – a request that could go further than a simple recount, possibly spurring an investigation into the integrity of Wisconsin’s voting system. Unofficial vote tallies show Trump won in MI by less than 12,000 votes, Wisconsin by less than 30,000 and Pennsylvania by less than 70,000.
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New Hampshire Deputy Secretary of State David Scanlan told NBC News the state has “no evidence” of widespread voter fraud.
