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Eugene

(62,656 posts)
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:12 PM Dec 2016

Wisconsin judge orders presidential vote recount to continue: local media

Source: Reuters

POLITICS | Fri Dec 9, 2016 | 12:15pm EST

Wisconsin judge orders presidential vote recount to continue: local media

A recount of presidential votes will continue in Wisconsin, one of three states where the Green Party is pursuing recounts of the Nov. 8 election, local news media reported on Friday.

A political action committee supporting President-elect Donald Trump sought to stop the Wisconsin recount, which is already underway, but U.S. District Judge James Peterson dismissed the request and said the recount would continue, according to local news media.

"The recount is an inherent part of what ensures the integrity of elections," the Wisconsin State Journal quoted Peterson as saying during Friday's hearing.

However, even if the recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin sought by Green Party Presidential candidate Jill Stein go ahead, they would be extremely unlikely to change the outcome of the election in which Trump, a Republican, defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-recount-idUSKBN13Y22B
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Wisconsin judge orders presidential vote recount to continue: local media (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2016 OP
Do we have any news Jean-Jacques Roussea Dec 2016 #1
By my calculations SickOfTheOnePct Dec 2016 #2
Recount is 95 percent complete RoccoR2 Dec 2016 #3
 
1. Do we have any news
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 01:34 PM
Dec 2016

on how these are going? Has there been a smoking gun? I still think if there was any rigging it'd be from a collective consciousness of Trump zealots that're embedded in long-held positions at the county level. Bunch of old white guys ya know? You gotta concede that handful of them must be raving Trumpanzees.

SickOfTheOnePct

(7,352 posts)
2. By my calculations
Fri Dec 9, 2016, 04:22 PM
Dec 2016

Hillary has gained a net of 56 votes, with 89% of the votes counted. She would need to flip ~11,500 out of the ~304,000 remaining votes, or almost 4%.

 

RoccoR2

(90 posts)
3. Recount is 95 percent complete
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 09:27 AM
Dec 2016

The net total change for all candidates is now +1,442 votes: Trump/Pence +628, Clinton/Kaine +653

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