The Green Party candidate began the crowdsourced campaign after some experts said they believed voting in three swing states may have been manipulated.
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein raised more than $2 million dollars on Wednesday to fund election recounts in three key states over claims the vote could have been manipulated or hacked.
Stein sought to raise $2.5 million by Friday to cover filing fees for recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania — swing states that had gone to Donald Trump in the presidential election. Had those states been declared for Hillary Clinton, she would have passed the 270 electoral votes necessary to win the presidency.
Clinton won the popular vote by more than 2 million, but Trump secured 290 electoral votes to take the presidency. The margins were especially close in Michigan, where the secretary of state said on Wednesday that Trump led by 10,704 votes. In Wisconsin, he won by about 27,000.
On Tuesday, New York magazine reported a group of academics and election lawyers believed election results in the states could have been manipulated or hacked — by enough of a margin that Clinton could have won. Though there was no proof of a hack, the group had lobbied the Clinton campaign to seek a recount and independent review, New York reported.
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the matter, and other election experts have been skeptical that a recount would show different results. But on Wednesday, the campaign of Green Party candidate Jill Stein launched a fundraising effort to review the integrity of the election, particularly where machine-counted voting machines were used.
“With your help, we are raising money to demand recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—three states where the data suggests a significant need to verify machine-counted vote totals,” the fundraising page said.
As of 11:52 p.m. Wednesday night, the campaign had raised $2 million and was growing steadily.
“Our effort to recount votes in those states is not intended to help Hillary Clinton,” the campaign said. “These recounts are part of an election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how untrustworthy the US election system is.”
The campaign set a deadline of 4 p.m. Central Time on Friday to raise the $1.1 million filing fee for a Wisconsin recount, $500,000 for Pennsylvania, and $600,000 for Michigan. Because donations were going through a campaign, donors are limited to giving $2,700 each. If the fundraising goal for recounts was not reached, the campaign said the money would be dedicated to other election integrity efforts.
“This is about more than the results of this one election,” Stein wrote in an email soliciting donations. “This is about protecting our democracy and ensuring that ‘We the People’ can have confidence in reported results. I do not have confidence in the reported results and donated to help make sure our votes were counted accurately on election day.”
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“The United States is a nation defined by its original sin: the genocide of American Indians […]. American Indian tribes are viewed as an inherent threat to the nation, poised to expose the great lies of U.S. democracy: that we are a nation of laws and not random power; that we are guided by reason and not faith; that we are governed by representation and not executive order; and finally, that we stand as a self-determined citizenry and not a kingdom of blood or aristocracy […]. From the perspective of American Indians, ‘democracy’ has been wielded with impunity as the first and most virulent weapon of mass destruction.”
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