Recount Ruckas
Who started it?
Thanks to Green Party candidate Jill Stein, a recount of presidential ballots is about to get under way in several key states won by Donald Trump in America's general election.The Green Party-backed recount efforts are focused on three states that Mr Trump won - Wisconsin (by 22,177 votes), Michigan (10,704 votes) and Pennsylvania (71,313 votes).
Will it change anything?
For Hillary Clinton to be declared she would require a swing of more than 100,000 votes across the three states - a move that would dwarf all previous recount results.A Green Party-requested effort in Ohio in 2004 resulted in Democrat John Kerry netting a grand total of 285 votes more than President George W Bush, for instance. The infamous Florida recount battle of 2000 involved shifts in the vote count measuring in the hundreds.Even Ms Stein concedes that the recounts will not likely alter this election's outcome.
By: Stephanine Inman
Thanks to Green Party candidate Jill Stein, a recount of presidential ballots is about to get under way in several key states won by Donald Trump in America's general election.The Green Party-backed recount efforts are focused on three states that Mr Trump won - Wisconsin (by 22,177 votes), Michigan (10,704 votes) and Pennsylvania (71,313 votes).
Will it change anything?
For Hillary Clinton to be declared she would require a swing of more than 100,000 votes across the three states - a move that would dwarf all previous recount results.A Green Party-requested effort in Ohio in 2004 resulted in Democrat John Kerry netting a grand total of 285 votes more than President George W Bush, for instance. The infamous Florida recount battle of 2000 involved shifts in the vote count measuring in the hundreds.Even Ms Stein concedes that the recounts will not likely alter this election's outcome.
By: Stephanine Inman