Clinton moves to join Wisconsin recount lawsuit
por Curcio Lalama·Noviembre 30, 2016 03:08
The commission had rejected her call for a hand recount, allowing all 72 counties to determine how they wanted to proceed.
Attorneys representing Trump in Michigan's recount effort, Gary Gordon and John Pirich, said any recount of MI ballots should be conducted by machine due to interest of time and the unlikeliness of machine tampering, as the machines aren't connected to the Internet.
US President-elect Donald Trump posted a string of tweets on Monday taking a jibe at American media house CNN, for what he alleges as a pro-Hillary Clinton news coverage. Trump's Sunday tweet-storm, on the other hand, suggests that assuming the mantle of president-elect hasn't stopped him from trafficking in baseless conspiracy theories, even one that undermines the legitimacy of an election he won.
But concerns of machines vulnerable to error or manipulation, a significant increase in voters who cast a ballot but did not vote for a presidential candidate and reports of hacking election-related data throughout the country make a statewide recount worth it, he said. In Michigan, when the margin in a race is more than 0.5%, the candidate must pay $125 per precinct, which adds up to $787,500.
The commission is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans. It adopted the recount plans unanimously.
Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton by about 22,000 votes in Wisconsin, but Stein has alleged - without evidence - that the results may have been hacked in a cyberattack. Stein had 31,006 votes, and De La Fuente had 1,514 votes.
Still, Stein emphasized the importance of pushing for the recounts, if only for principle. Stein denied this on Monday, saying the funds are "all going into a dedicated recount fund that is not accessible to the campaign". Counties must turn in their estimates by noon. In a hand recount, clerks would individually tally those ballots. Those machines also generate paper records.
Texas Republican Party chairman Tom Mechler said the elector's replacement will be selected by the remaining electors when they meet December 19.
Additionally, if the recount isn't finished by the December 19th electoral vote, it's possible neither candidate will get any of those states' electoral votes.
Stein was in court Tuesday afternoon seeking to force the Wisconsin recount to be done by hand.
Tuesday, November 29: Stein and/or De La Fuente campaign submits payment to WEC.
"As long as the petition is valid...the commission must issue a recount order", Michael Haas, the commission's interim administrator, told The Wall Street Journal.
Thursday, recount begins in every Wisconsin county.
The Board oft State Canvassers has four members.
December 13, Elections Commission staff will prepare the official recount canvass certification by 3 p.m.
Clinton's campaign, which has so far not ordered a recount, said it agrees with Stein's efforts in principle, but has not called for recounts because no evidence has been uncovered of potential voting fraud.
Furthermore, the once far-fetched concern of hacking has loomed large in an unusual election plagued by attacks from Russian-sponsored hackers, including the theft of emails from the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton campaign, as well as intrusions into Arizona and IL statewide voter registrations bases.
Trump was the first Republican presidential nominee to win Wisconsin since 1984.
Chris Thomas, the director of elections for the state, noted that Stein received only 1.07 percent of the vote in MI.
Three weeks after the presidential election, Wisconsin will move forward with a vote recount after some have questioned the integrity of election proceedings in the state.
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