Her campaign...page now estimates that attorney fees “are likely to be another $
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein is raising
millions of dollars for a recount in three states for the 2016 election.
Stein
reached her initial fundraising goal of $2.5 million within hours to
fund a review of votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. As of
Thursday morning, Stein's campaign
website
showed $3 million raised towards a target of $4.5 million to cover
attorney fees and statewide observer fees that would also likely be
required for those states' recounts.
Donald Trump won all three states by a narrow margin over
Hillary Clinton -- Stein had just 1 percent of the popular vote -- but
computer science experts recently raised
questions about the accuracy of the results
. Clinton reportedly performed better than Trump in those states'
counties that used paper ballots, but had 7 percent fewer votes in
counties were electronic voting was used.
According to the New
York Daily News, if electronic voting machines were hacked, that could
have made the difference of 30,000 votes in Wisconsin, where Clinton
lost the state's 10 electoral votes by just 27,000 popular votes. If
Clinton were to also win Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes and
Michigan's 16 electoral votes, that would boost her current tally of 232
to 278 -- enough to win the Electoral College.
Trump currently
holds 306 electoral votes after Michigan was called for the
president-elect Wednesday by just 10,704 votes. If a recount changed the
results in those three battleground states, Trump would lose the
election with a total of 260 electoral votes.
According to
Reuters
, the results in Michigan are unofficial until reviewed and approved by
the Board of State Canvassers on Nov. 28, the deadline for requesting a
recount.
University of Michigan computer science professor Alex
Halderman said there's no proof electronic voting machines were hacked
or tampered with, but urged Clinton to seek a recount due to a
suspicious pattern in paper vs. electronic voting results. Halderman and
a group of experts also said it was curious that Trump wasn't predicted
to win in most polls and pointed to allegations Russians hacked the
Democratic National Committee to influence the election.
FiveThirtyEight
editor Nate Silver said demographics were more likely to explain the
patterns in Trump's victory for the three states in question.
NBC
reports the Clinton campaign has made no plans to seek a recount, but
Stein says she's still pursuing one even if it doesn't change her
outcome as she finished fourth behind Trump, Clinton and Libertarian
candidate Gary Johnson. "These recounts are part of an
election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how
untrustworthy the U.S. election system is," Stein said.
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