[JURIST] The
Green Party [partywebsite] filed a
lawsuit [document, PDF] on Monday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania contesting the presidential election
results
[PA results] tallied on November 8. The claim offers as grounds for its
motion news articles from the New York Times, NBC, Wired, the
Chicago Tribune and others alleging hacker involvement in the election as well as the affidavit of
J. Alex Halderman
[official website], a professor of computer science and engineering at
the University of Michigan, who states that there were "unprecedented
cyberattacks" in the 2016 election. The suit calls for a full recount of
the 2016 Presidential Election throughout the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania.
Led by its presidential nominee
Jill Stein [campaign website], the Green Party also filed suit for a
recount in Wisconsin [WSJ report] set to start on Thursday. On Saturday Democratic Nominee
Hillary Clinton [campaign profile] joined the
Wisconsin recount
[JURIST report] initiative. The recount motions come as an inversion of
the pre-election status quo where President-elect Donald Trump
campaigned [NYT report] on the charge of a rigged vote and
refused to commit [Washington Post report] to the election results before he saw them.
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