Washington: Green Party nominee Jill Stein launched a bid on Thursday to seek a vote recount in three key Rust Belt states as pressure builds among liberals to challenge election results.
The Stein campaign said it needed to raise over $2 million by Friday to pay for recounts. That goal was reached by early Thursday morning, and the campaign has now increased the target to $4.5 million.
“Over the last 48-72 hours, reports have come in from experts, cyberexperts, who are reporting to us some very troubling news about the possibility of security breaches in voting results across this country,” Stein campaign manager David Cobb said in a video posted to Stein’s Facebook page on Thursday afternoon.
Stein and others are seeking an audit and recount of the November 8 voting results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, following reports that voting security experts alerted Clinton’s campaign to the possibility of hacks in key counties in those states.
President-elect Donald Trump claimed Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — wins that helped push him comfortably over the threshold of 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory — while Michigan remains too close to call, more than two weeks after election.
