Green Party: Stein to file recount request in Wisconsin
(AP) — Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will request a recount of election results in Wisconsin on Friday, a local party official said.
Stein has said she plans to request recounts in the three states — all reliably Democratic in recent presidential elections — to see whether hacking may have taken place, though there's no evidence voter results were hacked or electronic voting machines were compromised.
"There's no smoking gun here, but we're saying the American public needs to have it investigated to make sure our votes count," said George Martin, a member of the Wisconsin Green Party's coordinating council.
During a news conference in Milwaukee, Martin said Stein's campaign would also ask for a "reconciliation" of voting records that would go beyond an audit.
Wisconsin GOP Executive Director Mark Morgan issued a statement calling the recount request "absurd and nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines Wisconsin's election process."