Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein has officially filed the paperwork to start a recount of the presidential race in Michigan.
The Detroit Free Press reported Stein filed a request for a full recount of the state’s 4.8 million ballots at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. She once again asked for a recount by hand, a request she also made in Wisconsin that was denied.
“I and the undersigned members of my slate of electors are aggrieved on account of fraud or mistake in the canvass of the votes by the inspectors of election, and/or the returns made by the inspectors and/or by the Board of County Canvassers and/or by the Board of State Canvassers,” Stein said in her request, according to the Free Press.
“I request that all of the precincts and absent voter counting board precincts within the state of Michigan be recounted by hand count,” she said.
Stein has sparked recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and a selection of precincts in Pennsylvania over the last week. She has said she doesn’t expect to change the results of the election in those states, which President-elect Trump won by mere thousands of votes, but wants to ensure each vote is counted.
Stein has claimed there are “irregularities” with the vote counting machines used in each state despite experts saying those machines are secure.
Stein announced a fundraising drive last week in order to pay for the recounts and raised more money in five days than she raised for her entire presidential campaign. As of her last reporting, she had raised $6.5 million, more than her initial goal of $5 million.
As of Wednesday, Stein’s new goal was to raise $9.5 million because the state of Wisconsin increased their filing fees above the original estimate.
The Free Press reported the recount in Michigan would likely be finished by Dec. 10. State law in Wisconsin requires that state’s recount to be finished by Dec. 13.
