2016 US Presidential Election - Green Party candidate pushes for vote recount in Wisconsin Thursday Nov 24,2016

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on Thursday Nov 24,2016 launched a bid to seek a vote recount in Wisconsin, the first of three Rust Belt states won by Donald Trump where she intends to challenge the result.

Stein's campaign announced Thursday that it had raised the $1.1 million necessary to fund a recount in Wisconsin and was on track to do the same in Pennsylvania and Michigan, having raised $2.7 million of a $4.5 million goal.

Her campaign has cited unspecified "anomalies" as grounds to mount a challenge in all three states.

Wisconsin will recount its presidential election votes after receiving a petition from trounced Green Party candidate Jill Stein (above) on Friday Nov 25,2016

 

Jill Stein filed her petition with seconds to spare before the window for demanding recounts closed on November 25,2016

The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it plans to complete the recount of votes by December 10.

The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump won the Wisconsin seat by a narrow margin of 22,000 votes.

The President-elect got 1,404,000 votes against his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton’s 1,381,823. Stein received 31,006 votes.

In addition to Stein, Roque ‘Rocky’ De La Fuente, the Reform Party nominee who got 1,514 Wisconsin votes, also filed a recount petition, the Wisconsin Election Commission said.