Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein doesn’t want the election to be over.
More than two weeks after voters went to the polls and elected President-elect Trump, Stein asked her supporters to donate money in order for her to get a recount in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Trump’s surprise victories in those states are credited with giving him the election.
Stein said the voting machines used to count votes in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania were “highly vulnerable to hacking and malicious programming.”
“After a divisive and painful presidential race, in which foreign agents hacked into party databases, private email servers, and voter databases in certain states, many Americans are wondering if our election results are reliable,” Stein said in a statement. “That’s why the unexpected results of the election and reported anomalies need to be investigated before the 2016 presidential election is certified. We deserve elections we can trust.”
Stein’s goal is to raise $2 million by Friday afternoon in order to ensure the recounts will happen.
According to a Pew Center for the States study, recounts can be costly affairs. The cost of labor to manually count all the ballots in Washington’s 2004 gubernatorial race cost $1.16 million and it cost Minnesota counties $460,000 to do a recount in the 2008 Senate election.
Stein said the recount must be done in order to ensure the people’s votes are all counted fairly.
The campaign did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request to know how the $2 million would be spent.
