[JURIST]
Green Party
[party website] presidential nominee Jill Stein said Sunday that she
and her campaign intend to "escalate" her recount efforts in
Pennsylvania by bringing a lawsuit in federal court. Stein had filed
suit in the state court, but the Pennsylvania case law requires voters
seeking a recount to pay a $1 million bond. Stein and her campaign
intend to
file the suit
[CNN report] on Monday, saying "the judge's outrageous demand that
voters pay such an exorbitant figure is a shameful, unacceptable barrier
to democratic participation." The third-party candidate was also
emphatic that the recount was necessary because elected leaders have not
ensured "an election that we can trust, and that is accurate, that is
secure against hacking, against human error, against machine error, and
in which the votes are being counted." Stein has raised more than $6.5
million for the recount and some believe Stein is using recount
donations as a fundraising scheme for future elections, though Stein
denied these allegations.
Led by its presidential nominee Stein,
the Green Party filed suits for recounts in several states late last
month. Last week President-elect Donald Trump and his supporters
filed legal challenges [JURIST report] to recounts in Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Earlier last week a federal judge
ruled
[JURIST report] that the Wisconsin recount could go forward but denied a
motion that the recounts be done by hand. The Wisconsin recount
began [JS report] Thursday, with
other recounts [JURIST report] set to begin soon. The Hillary Clinton campaign has
come out in favor
[JURIST report] of the recount efforts, but has thus far provided only
minimal assistance to the cause. The recount motions come as an
inversion of the pre-election status quo where Trump campaigned on the
charge of a rigged vote and
refused to commit [WP report] to the election results before he saw them.
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