US election recount
US election recount: Hillary Clinton supports hand-counting Wisconsin ballots
An attorney for Clinton said in a court filing that she argues, like Jill Stein, that hand recounts are superior to automatic recounts of ballots by optical scanners Hillary Clinton
made her first move in the presidential election recount effort on Tuesday, declaring support for an attempt to force Wisconsin authorities to review the state’s 3m votes by hand.
Clinton intervened in
the case of a lawsuit brought by Jill Stein, the Green party
candidate, which seeks to bar officials in Wisconsin from carrying out recounts
with machines, according to the docket for the case at Dane County
circuit court.
An attorney for
Clinton said in a court filing that the former secretary of state argues, like
Stein, that hand recounts are superior to automatic recounts of ballots by
optical scanners, which are used by about 90% of counties in the state.
Clinton “respectfully
supports the issuance of an order requiring a manual recount of all ballots
cast in the presidential election in Wisconsin”, attorney Joshua Kaul said in
the motion, according to the Madison Capital Times.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/hillary-clinton-election-recount-wisconsin-jill-stein
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