Stein Commits To Recount, Despite Legal Hurdles

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has said that the many legal roadblocks presented by Republicans won’t keep her from pursuing recount efforts in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. “We will not give in to intimidation, to legal maneuvering, and to bureaucratic obstruction,” Stein said this week. She filed a federal lawsuit in Pennsylvania as part of her push for a statewide recount in the presidential race. In her complaint, Stein wrote that Pennsylvania’s elections operation is “a national disgrace.” The suit comes after Stein’s lawyer withdrew a state lawsuit seeking a recount there, saying in a filing that petitioners are “regular citizens of ordinary means” not able to “post the $1,000,000 bond required by the Court.” A federal judge in Michigan ordered state officials there to move ahead with a recount, despite a lawsuit filed by the state’s attorney general Bill Schuette, a Trump supporter, to block the effort. Make American Great PAC, a pro-Trump group, last week filed a lawsuit to block the recount effort in Wisconsin. “[W]e are here to assure Donald Trump that there is nothing to be afraid of if you believe in democracy,” Stein said.