Little Movement in Presidential Recount Tallies

Vote totals in states where former presidential candidate Jill Stein and the Green party have requested recounts hadn’t budged much as of Tuesday morning, the Associated Press reports, with the process in Michigan still in its nascent staged amid a flurry of court action.

The Rust Belt states of Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, which President-elect Donald Trump flipped from blue states to red by narrow margins, are the key sites of the efforts. Trump’s margin of victory in Wisconsin hadn’t changed after a review of the tally in six counties. His lead in Pennsylvania had decreased to 47,750 votes as of Monday, but as counties finish counting provisional and overseas ballots, “there are not enough uncounted votes to change the outcome, officials say,” according to the AP.

Michigan remains the messiest state of the three:

A federal judge in Detroit ordered a statewide hand recount of roughly 4.8 million ballots that started in two of the state’s 83 counties on Monday. Six more started recounting Tuesday, including the largest, Wayne. Republicans appealed that ruling Monday. A spokesman for Republican Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said it’s possible not all votes will be recounted in Wayne because of improper seals on ballot boxes and other issues. In such cases, the original vote would stand. Democrat Hillary Clinton won 67 percent of Wayne County’s vote. Trump won the state by about 10,700 votes, or two-tenths of a percentage point, over Clinton. Republican Attorney General Bill Schuette, the Trump campaign and super PACs have filed separate lawsuits asking state courts to prevent the recount, arguing that Stein, as the fourth-place finisher, is not “aggrieved” because she has no chance of winning in a recount. A hearing is scheduled Tuesday on those actions.

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