Jill Stein Filed for a Recount in Wisconsin. What Now?
Former Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein launched an effort to raise enough funds to request recounts of the 2016 election’s results in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. On Friday afternoon, she successfully initiated the latter.
The Wisconsin Election Commission confirmed that it had received a recount petition from Stein, as well as independent candidate Rocky De La Fuente, with less than two hours remaining before the Friday deadline. On Saturday, the Clinton campaign’s general counsel, Marc Elias, wrote in a Medium post that Clinton’s team would “participate” in the recount process. They will devote resources “to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself,” Elias wrote.
It’s yet another unusual turn in a historically unusual election season. Stein herself received just 31,006 votes in Wisconsin, and her initial announcement of the recount effort cited security experts whose primary concern was that a robust audit take place, a less arduous and less expensive undertaking than a full recount. (Wisconsin was already going to audit the results, albeit with a limited scope.)
