Pennsylvania and Wisconsin end election recount bids
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Designated observes watch as tabulators work on recounting presidential ballots in Dane County (Wis.)
The US states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have ended recount of presidential election votes, certifying President-elect Donald Trump as the winner.
Trump’s victory in Wisconsin was reaffirmed after a statewide vote recount was completed on Monday, showing Trump defeating Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes.
In Pennsylvania, a federal judge rejected a Green Party-backed request to recount ballots in the state’s presidential election.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein succeeded in having the Wisconsin vote recount, but judges in Pennsylvania and Michigan blocked her attempts for similar statewide recounts.
Stein received only about 1 percent of the vote in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan — the traditionally blue states that the president-elect won with a razor-thin margin.
The Stein campaign had argued that voting machines in all three states were susceptible to hacking.
But she was proven wrong at least in Wisconsin where the numbers barely budged after about three million votes were recounted.
Trump picked up a net 162 votes as a result of the recount and still won the state by more than 22,000 votes, the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified on Monday.
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