Wisconsin is getting ready for a recount
It looks like Jill Stein might get her recount.
On Friday, the state's Elections Commission announced that Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate, had officially filed for a recount, beating the deadline of 5 p.m. local time.
“The Commission is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States," Mike Haas, director of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, said in a statement.
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Hass said that the commission would hold a teleconference with county clerks next week and that he anticipates "the recount will begin late in the week after the Stein campaign has paid the recount fee, which we are still calculating.”
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Earlier, a group of computer scientists claimed there were possible irregularities in the vote count and urged the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to challenge the election results in key swing states. Several experts, however, have questioned the wisdom of that course of action.
Regardless, Stein raised more than $5 million to file for recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
"Our effort to recount votes in those states is not intended to help Hillary Clinton," she wrote, but instead "are part of an election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how untrustworthy the U.S. election system is."
In Wisconsin, because Stein lost by more than a 0.25 percent margin, she has to foot the bill for the recount — expected to be at least $500,000, Hass told Wisconsin Public Radio earlier this week. Stein estimates that number to be $1.1 million.
Stein is already asking for volunteers to observe the recount process.
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Donald Trump narrowly won the state of Wisconsin in the presidential election, with 1,404,000 votes to Clinton's 1,381,823 votes.
Stein has until Monday to file for a recount in Pennsylvania and Wednesday in Michigan.
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Keith Wagstaff is an assistant editor at Mashable and a terrible Settlers of Catan player. He has written for TIME, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, NBC News, The Village Voice, VICE, GQ and New York Magazine, among many other reputable and not-so-reputable publications. After nearly a decade in New York City, he now lives in his native Los Angeles.
