If it is a bot run by someone who is wealthy (ie : Soros), the recount could be claimed to be publicly funded, source of bot remains unknown.
For what purpose : possible delay of formal certification of the recent election ?; bolster the DNC claim of irregularities ?
If she should change her mind and not pursue a recount: all that money is hers
How do you think Bernie funded and got his cabin on the island in Vermont ?
In the Wikileaks emails they were giving instructions to take large donations and break them into thousands of small $20 donations using fake doner names. They were taking say a 1 million dollar donation which is illegal and making it look like a bunch of regular folks donated it. Anything under $50 doesn’t need to be verified according to election rules, they even stated the $50 threshold in the email I saw.
So they are probably doing the same thing here, a bot is registering a bunch of small donations using a bogus list of addresses.