The recount is more than 70 percent complete in Wisconsin, and Clinton has gained just 82 votes on Trump, who won the state by more than 22,000 votes. The Wisconsin Elections Commission reported Wednesday that 34 of 72 counties had completed their work and that the others are on track to finish by next week's deadline. More than 2.1 million votes out of the nearly 3 million cast have been recounted.
“Because there is no basis for this court to ignore the Michigan court’s ruling and make an independent judgment regarding what the Michigan Legislature intended by the term ‘aggrieved,’ plaintiffs have not shown an entitlement to a recount under Michigan’s statutory scheme."
"The issues that plaintiffs raise are serious indeed,” Judge Goldsmith said. “The vulnerability of our system of voting poses the threat of a potentially devastating attack on the integrity of our election system. But invoking a court’s aid to remedy that problem in the manner plaintiffs have chosen — seeking a recount as an audit of the election to test whether the vulnerability led to actual compromise of the voting system — has never been endorsed by any court and would require, at a minimum, evidence of significant fraud or mistake — and not speculative fear of them. Such evidence has not been presented here.”
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On a side note, for those who think their vote matters and think the vote counts are accurate, there has never been a recount where the recounted votes exactly match that of the original count. The only way to get 100% accurate vote counts is to have the counts done by bank tellers and have the tellers believe that each vote is a $100 bill they are responsible for. Oh, they'll be accurate then.
Trump won Michigan by about 10,700 votes over Clinton. The recount has been stopped in Michigan. A US Federal Judge ruled that, while Stein raised serious issues about the integrity of Michigan's election system, her concerns offered were "speculative claims" and "not actual injury," and thus doesn't qualify as an "aggrieved" candidate under Michigan law.
In Pennsylvania, Stein hasn't produced evidence of hacking, but calls Pennsylvania's election system "a national disgrace." Election officials updated the state's vote count to show that Trump's lead over Clinton had shrunk to about 44,000 out of more than 6 million votes cast, still far short of the 0.5 percent trigger (30,000 difference) for an automatic statewide recount. A state spokeswoman said 15 provisional ballots remained uncounted. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia on Tuesday scheduled a hearing Friday, Dec 9, on Stein's request for a recount. The federal deadline for certifying the votes is Tuesday, Dec 13. So, good luck with that.
In Nevada, a partial recount is underway at the request of De La Fuente, who finished last with a fraction of 1 percent of the vote. He paid about $14,000 for the recount to provide what he called a counterbalance to the recounts sought by Stein. Most of the 92 precincts being re-counted are in the Las Vegas area, with eight of the precincts in four other counties. If the sample shows a discrepancy of at least 1 percent for De La Fuente or Clinton, a full recount will be launched in all 17 Nevada counties. The current partial recount should be completed by Fri, Dec 9th.
