Apparently in this country, we are not fond of recounts.Election officials from the US state of Wisconsin have certified Donald Trump's victory in the state, as a judge in Pennsylvania stopped a push for a recount there, putting an end to the Green Party candidate's push for a closer look at the November 8 presidential election results.
The results in Wisconsin changed only slightly after election officials conducted a 10-day recount before reconfirming Trump as the official winner on Monday.
The head of the north-central state's elections commission announced the results, saying Trump won by 22,748 votes, which is 131 votes more than the original margin between him and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.
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But according to American constitutional lawyer John Bonifaz, who appeared on the programme Democracy Now!: "While some counties have agreed to hand-count the ballots, other counties are not."
According to Bonifaz, these counties are "feeding the ballots through the very same machines that gave us the tallies on election night.
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On Monday a federal judge rejected Stein's initiative to secure a recount in Pennsylvania. Trump's lawyers had filed a suit there seeking to deny Stein's request. Recount efforts were also thwarted in Michigan after another federal judge halted that drive, citing a lack of evidence that fraud or errors had occurred.
alJazeera
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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