Michigan to move ahead with vote recount

U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith on Monday issued an order for Michigan election officials to begin recounting the ballots starting this noon.

With this, Michigan, where President-elect Donald Trump won 16 electoral votes by just 0.2 percent, will become the second state to conduct a recount of ballot casts during the last month presidential election as recount is already underway in Wisconsin, reports the CNN.

The ruling follows a request from Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who yesterday ended her state-wide ballot recount efforts in Pennsylvania.

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, last week filed a lawsuit to stop the recount.

Stein has spearheaded a recount effort in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin -- three states where Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton.

 

Stein's campaign this weekend said that she would instead file the lawsuit seeking a statewide recount in federal court on Monday.