Judge denies request for hand recount of Wisconsin's presidential election results [View all]
Source: Madison.com
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MARK SOMMERHAUSER and MATTHEW DeFOUR Wisconsin State Journal 6 hrs ago 86
A Dane County judge on Tuesday denied a request by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton to require all votes in Wisconsin’s presidential election to be recounted by hand, as officials in each of the state’s 72 counties ready for the recount to begin Thursday.
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Clinton’s legal team largely stayed on the sidelines in the recount until Tuesday, when her campaign joined Stein’s court request for a hand recount.
Clinton’s attorney, Josh Kaul, wrote in a memo to the court that a hand recount is “preferable to a machine recount because human beings can assess voter intent in a way that machines cannot.”
Fifty-six counties have told the commission or the Wisconsin State Journal that they plan to do full or partial hand recounts. Other counties plan to use scanning machines to re-tabulate the votes............................................
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It makes no sense at all to put the ballots through the SAME machines.
Needs a real audit-not just a recount.
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