First Day of Wisconsin
Recount Nets One Vote Change Between Trump And Clinton. Election officials are confident by Randy DeSoto
12/2/16
The conclusion of the first day of
Wisconsin’s recount in the presidential race has netted Hillary Clinton one
vote. Currently, approximately 22,000 votes separate Clinton and winner Donald
Trump.
Trump garnered 1,404,000 (47.2 percent)
votes to Clinton’s 1,381,823 (46.4 percent), while Green Party candidate Jill
Stein, who called for the recount (now backed by Clinton’s campaign), took 1
percent of the vote or 31,006.
Based on the first day of the recount’s
results, it does not appear the candidates’ overall tallies will change much. Menominee County, home to the Menominee
Indian Reservation, was the only one of Wisconsin’s 72 counties to fully report
its results at the end of the first day. It is the second-smallest county in
terms of population with approximately 4, 500 people.
Trump lost two votes and Clinton lost
one, while Stein picked up 17 votes and Libertarian Gary Johnson gained 12, the
Racine Journal Times reported. Wisconsin counties have until Dec. 13
to complete their recounts. “Two pro-Trump groups, the Great America PAC and
the Stop Hillary PAC … went to federal court late Thursday to try and stop the
recount,” according to ABC News.
Meanwhile, the Michigan elections board
deadlocked Friday so a recount will go forward on Tuesday or Wednesday in The
Great Lakes State unless the court intervenes. Two Republicans on the board
voted against the recount and two Democrats voted in favor of it.
As reported by Western Journalism, Trump won Michigan by 10,700
votes, according to the
official results. An automatic recount in the state is triggered when the
difference is 2,000 votes or less.
In a statement Wednesday regarding
Stein’s push for a recount in the state, Michigan Secretary of State Ruth
Johnson said, “It is unusual that a candidate who received just 1 percent of
the vote is seeking a recount, especially when there is no evidence of hacking
or fraud, or even a credible allegation of any tampering.”
Michigan’s Attorney General Bill
Schuette, R, filed a suit Friday to end Stein’s recount demand. “Jill
Stein received fewer than 52,000 of the more than 4.7 million votes cast in
Michigan’s election for President, yet she now alleges that she is an
‘aggrieved’ candidate and demands a recount that has no possibility of changing
the result of that election,” the lawsuit states, adding, “We have asked the
court to end the recount which Stein is pursuing in violation of Michigan laws
that protect the integrity of our elections.”
Stein has also filed suit in
Pennsylvania to try to force a third recount. The candidate garnered approximately 49,600 votes in the
Keystone State to Trump’s 2,955,000 and Hillary Clinton’s 2,906,000. The gap
between Trump and Clinton stands at approximately 47,000 votes.
The filing deadline of Nov. 21 already
passed before Stein made the call for a recount, but the Green Party candidate
has filed a suit in state court for a recount in more than 100 precincts
in Pennsylvania. The state has more than 9,100 precincts.
The precincts Stein wants retallied are
in and around heavily Democratic Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, the Associated
Press reported. In order for an automatic recount to be
triggered, the difference between the candidates must be .05
percent or less;
however, the current difference is 0.8 percent, so the threshold was not
met, according to the state’s posted results.
A hearing is scheduled for Monday in the
Keystone Stone to determine whether Stein’s request will go forward. According to ABC News, election
officials in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania have all expressed confidence
in their results.
http://www.westernjournalism.com/first-day-of-wisconsin-recount-nets-a-one-vote-change-between-trump-and-clinton/
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