Michigan
A statewide hand recount of Michigan’s roughly 2.8 million ballots that began on Monday is now up in the air as a federal judge will hold a hearing Wednesday on whether to stop it.
The state elections board also is meeting Wednesday, a day after the Michigan appeals court ordered it to dismiss Stein’s recount petition, claiming she has no standing. The court noted that she received 1 percent of the vote and has no chance of catching Trump, who narrowly defeated Clinton in the state. A federal judge takes up the matter next.
According to the certified results from late November, Trump won the state by about 10,700 votes – or about two-tenths of a percentage point. The recount so far was looking at eight counties, including the state’s largest, Wayne.
Pennsylvania
Verification measures have been taken in the Keystone State’s two largest counties – Philadelphia and Allegheny (home of Pittsburgh) – but the fate of a statewide recount rests in the hands of a federal court after Stein’s Green Party filed a federal lawsuit on Monday.
While Pennsylvania has yet to certify its results from November’s election, an updated count by state election officials saw Trump’s lead shrink to just about 46,000 over Clinton out of the 6 million votes cast in the state.
So far there have been very few reports of discrepancies in the recounts that have taken place.
I’m hoping the “judge” follows the lead of Michigan’s Appeals Court and stops this mess - he supposedly only ordered it to begin due to time constraints vs’ any actual standing by the Stein/Hillary/Soros folks and the appeals court has said there is no standing under Michigan law.