Recount 2016: Controversy & Media Attacks Follow Jill Stein’s Demand For Electoral Integrity

‘What the recounts will do is make clear at long last that we must radically reform our abysmal voting system so that this kind of thing never happens again,’ an election integrity activist tells MintPress News.

Kit O'Connell
By Kit O'Connell
Jill Stein holds a press conference to discuss recount efforts outside Trump Towers in New York City, Dec. 5, 2016. (Photo by: Dennis Van Tine/STAR MAX/IPx via AP)

AUSTIN, Texas --- Dr. Jill Stein has been attacked in the mainstream media, threatened with legal action, and even created a divide within her own political party due to her attempts to audit the results of the presidential election. “I think Jill Stein’s doing the right thing,” said Mark Crispin Miller, a self-described “election integrity

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Stein’s Recount Battle Continues, Here’s The Latest

The recount is set to take place in Wisconsin, and potentially in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Nadia Prupis
By Nadia Prupis
An Arizona elections official at the Maricopa inserts ballots into a machine to recount the votes in the 5th Congressional District race Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2016, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein on Monday told the Wisconsin Elections Commission that she would sue unless the state conducted its recount by hand. Unless she wins the case in Dane County Circuit Court, officials in all of Wisconsin's 72 counties could decide whether they want to count election ballots manually or by machine, the

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Clinton Campaign To Join In Recount Effort, As Stein Officially Files In Wisconsin

Green Party’s Jill Stein also expected to pursue recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Deirdre Fulton
By Deirdre Fulton
Jill Stein filing for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday, November 25. (Photo: Jill Stein/Facebook)

Hillary Clinton's campaign said Saturday it will participate in electoral recounts in Wisconsin—where such an effort was officially initiated on Friday—as well as in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, who has raised more than $5 million toward the effort, filed for a recount in Wisconsin on Friday

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