Washington/New York: MICHIGAN’S attorney general said yesterday he had filed a lawsuit to halt the Green Party’s requested recount of presidential votes in the state, adding to Republican efforts in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to maintain Donald Trump’s victory.
Bill Schuette, a Republican, said recounting all of the state’s votes “threatens to silence all Michigan votes for president” and criticised Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein for what he called an “inexcusable” and expensive request.
The Green Party has sought recounts of the results from the November 8 election in the three states, which bucked their history of supporting Democrats and voted narrowly for Trump, a Republican.
Even if the recounts take, they are extremely unlikely to change the overall result of the election, in which Trump beat Democrat Hillary Clinton. Stein, who scored only about 1 percent of the vote, has said recount campaign is not targeted at Trump or Clinton.
