MADISON, Wis. (AP) – Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Friday formally requested a recount of election results in Wisconsin.
President-elect Donald Trump narrowly won Wisconsin and Pennsylvania and has a small lead in Michigan. Stein has said she planned to request recounts in the three states – all reliably Democratic in recent presidential elections – to see whether hacking may have taken place, though there’s no evidence voter results were hacked or electronic voting machines were compromised.
Wisconsin Election Commission officials don’t believe the state has ever conducted a presidential recount. They estimate the process could cost as much as $1 million, which Stein’s campaign will have to cover.
Stein’s campaign has been raising money through online appeals since Tuesday to cover the costs of recounts, with $5.2 million raised as of Friday afternoon.
Wisconsin’s unofficial election results show Trump with 1,404,000 votes, Hillary Clinton with 1,381,823 votes and Stein with 31,000 votes. Wisconsin officials have already announced a limited audit of state voting machines, but the state is less vulnerable to cyberattacks because it uses electronic machines with voter-verifiable paper trails in most counties.