Jill Stein Files for Wisconsin Vote Recount
Wisconsin Elections Commission has received a request for a recount of the votes in the state narrowly won by Donald Trump on November 8.
The request was filed by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
Dr. Jill Stein has also pledged to file vote recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.
However, a win by Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin alone would not overturn Donald Trump’s lead – it provides only 10 votes in the crucial electoral college that gave Trump victory.
If Hillary Clinton wins in Wisconsin, Michigan (16 electoral votes) and Pennsylvania (20 electoral votes) would have clinched the presidency for the Democrat.
“The Commission has received the Stein and Del La Fuente recount petitions,” Wisconsin Elections Commission tweeted.
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It added that details would be released shortly.
Meanwhile, Jill Stein tweeted that Wisconsin recount would begin next week. November 25 was the deadline for the request.
Her campaign needs to raise millions of dollars to cover the fees for the vote recount in all three states.
Jill Stein’s website says nearly $5.3 million has already been raised toward a $7 million target. It says this is enough to fund the recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
Voting rights lawyers who urged candidates to request recounts, John Bonifaz and J. Alex Halderman, have said the results need to be closely analyzed.
The fact that the results in the three states were different from what polls predicted was “probably not” down to hacking, J. Alex Halderman said. Concerns over possible Russian interference had been expressed in the run-up to the vote.
“The only way to know whether a cyber-attack changed the result is to closely examine the available physical evidence ,” he wrote.
Pennsylvania’s deadline is November 28, and Michigan’s is November 30.
According to officials, there was no evidence of election tampering in the three states where Donald Trump had razor-thin victories over Hillary Clinton.
The Republican’s camp has made no public comments on the recounts issue.
Donald Trump won 290 electoral votes in the November election, while Hillary Clinton had 232 votes.
Michigan is yet to declare final results.