Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign is seeking volunteers to help with recount efforts in two states that helped President-elect Trump defeat her last month.
The Clinton campaign set up pages on the team’s website, HillaryClinton.com, allowing volunteers to sign up and help with their team’s recounts in Wisconsin and Michigan.
“Help with the Wisconsin recount. Let us know if you want to get involved,” one page reads before asking for personal information.
The page does not mention Green Party nominee Jill Stein, the driving force behind the effort. Stein was initially the only one involved in the recount before the Clinton campaign announced they would also lend a hand despite admitting that it will likely have no impact on the outcome.
“Paid for by Hillary for America, a grassroots campaign of 3 million donors committed to electing Hillary Clinton (and keeping Donald Trump out of the White House),” reads the disclosure at the bottom of the page.
The recount in Wisconsin kicked off Thursday. The state will conduct it using a machine recount, much to the dismay of Stein, who had been pushing for a hand recount and argued that the machines were rigged and swung the election in favor of Trump.
Ted Olson, a top lawyer involved in the Bush v. Gore recount in 2000, bashed the recount. He said Stein has no evidence that anything improper took place, and has only cited “grave concerns” about the “integrity of the process.”
