Who runs the state elections in Michigan? This is insane. I can see a machine recount but a hand recount. Someone on the MI GOP and the Trump campaign needs their GOP lawyers to stop this recount crap.
A hand recount will not be done before the electors are to meet. Someone will have to take this to court and stop it or at least court mandate machine recount only!
Is the MI Supreme Court majority conservative like Wisconsin’s? !if it is then there is a decent chance the state Supreme Court will shut the recount down if it gets too crazy after machine recount totals show no significant changes from previous official vote totals!
correct, it wouldn’t hurt to lawyer up in Mich and Pa as well, we never know what could happen
“I can see a machine recount but a hand recount”
Maybe they will check for finger prints of the Russian hackers on the paper ballots.
We should all be applauding the possibility of a hand recount which can not possibly be completed in time. That means the electors will go to Trump and we win.
In fact, Trump's best strategy is to delay as much as possible. Dec 13 is coming up fast. Either the state loses its vote or it goes with the initial result of the election if the uncertainty is not resolved by then. In either case, we win.
That's precisely the point. If the recall isn't complete, the state's electors will be thrown out, thus lowering Trump's total electoral count.
If they can do that in WI, MI, and PA, Trump will have less than the required 270, thus throwing the election to the House of Representatives.
At least that's the plan.
Per the Constitution, all he needs is a majority of "the electors present" to win on December 19th.