Jill
Stein, the Green Party's candidate in the 2016 US presidential race,
has raised over $3.7 million in just over a day in an effort to force
a vote recount in the key battleground states of Wisconsin, Michigan
and Pennsylvania. Speaking to Sputnik, Dr. Stein offered details
about the motivations behind her effort.
On
Wednesday, the Stein campaign announced that it had begun raising
funds for the three state recount in what it said was a
"multi-partisan effort to check the accuracy of the
machine-counted vote tallies in these states in order to ensure the
integrity of our elections."
Stein cited
a host of concerns brought to her by voters, computer scientists, and
voting systems professionals as the reason for filing for the
recount. Her announcement follows on recent reporting that the
Clinton campaign was also considering filing similar hand-count
recounts and forensic analyses of electronic voting in the same
states.
Stein's
online campaign has spread like wildfire, and has already raised well
over the $2.2 million formally needed to file for a recount in the
three key states ahead of deadlines on November 25, 28 and 30. Other
costs associated with the recount, including attorney's fees and
statewide recount observers are expected to run anywhere from $6-7
million. Accordingly, Stein's campaign is asking for at least $4.5
million, having already raised $3.7 million as of 2 pm EST.
That figure
officially surpasses the $3.509 million the Green Party candidate
raised during her presidential run. Stein received 1.39 million
votes, or just over 1% of the popular vote, in the election held
earlier this month. Speaking to Brad Friedman, host of Radio
Sputnik's Bradcast, Stein offered details about what it was she was
trying to accomplish with her initiative.
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