Posted on 12/01/2016 11:27:31 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to officially object Thursday to Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s request for a laborious hand-recount of the state’s nearly 4.8 million ballots. Trump was declared the winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes by a margin of 10,704 votes on Monday.
Fred Woodhams, a spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State Office, said the objection would be filed by the end of day Thursday. Stein filed her recount request Wednesday, along with a check for $973,250 to cover the costs to recount ballots in Michigan’s 6,300 precincts.
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Wednesday the recount will cost more than $5 million, most of it to be borne by Michigan taxpayers. The state Republican party went further, suggesting costs could soar to $12 million.
The recount was expected to begin Friday, but Trump’s request could delay it, perhaps until Tuesday, The Detroit News reported.
Trump has been critical of the recount request, calling it “ridiculous” and “a scam.”
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than 1 percent of the vote overall and wasn't even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount," the president-elect said in a statement.
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, has called the request by Stein a “temper tantrum” that won't change the outcome of the vote. Stein and her attorneys have acknowledged there is no evidence of fraud or impropriety but raised questions about 85,000 ballots with “blank votes” in the presidential race — more than enough to make up for the difference separating Trump and Clinton.
The recount requests came after a prominent group of election attorneys and computer scientists, including University of Michigan computer science professor J. Alex Halderman, claimed to have uncovered “persuasive evidence” that the election results in the three battleground states could have been hacked.
Stein has also made requests for recounts in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Stein lost a bid for a hand-recount in Wisconsin, but a majority of the counties plan to pursue that option, their right under Wisconsin law. In Pennsylvania, at least six counties have received recount petitions, but the situation in the Keystone State is more complicated than in Michigan and Wisconsin.
Stein is crazy. She now claims, “Wisconsin uses voting machines that are outlawed, they are illegal.”
I think Stein is guilty of believing everything she reads at the Huffington Post.
Surprised they are not objecting to the whole recount itself instead of just objecting to the hand count. Stein being a fringe candidate with just 1% of the vote doesn’t have any chance to win via recount. Her request is frivolous on its face.
Unlike WI, MI SOS does not have to approve Steins recount request and can deny her any kind of recount for a host of grounds. Trumps lawyers should have filed a separate objection to have the entire recount petition thrown out based its not changing anything and also to save MI taxpayers millions. The Republican MI SOS sure isnt looking out for taxpayers by her willingness to approve crazy Jill’s recount petition. That wasted tax money could be better spent fixing Flint’s water supply or kept in taxpayers wallets!
Me too. Bernie got a house.
Exactly
Thanks for the link and information. :)
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