Recount would have to move quickly
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber - 1:39 p.m. CST November 25, 2016
Wisconsin could be at risk of missing a Dec. 13 deadline to certify its 10 electoral votes if clerks can't complete an expected recount by then.
Hitting the deadline could be particularly tricky if Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein is able to force the recount to be conducted by hand, Wisconsin's top election official said.
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Wisconsin's last statewide recount was in 2011 for a state Supreme Court seat and the outcome did not change. The recount showed Justice David Prosser defeated challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg by 7,004 votes a slightly tighter margin than the 7,316-vote victory he had in initial returns.
That recount took more than a month. This one would have to happen more quickly to meet the Dec. 13 deadline. "You may potentially have the state electoral votes at stake if it doesn't get done by then," Haas said. A lawyer with Stein's campaign has said she wants the recount done by hand. That would take longer and require a judge's order, Haas said.
Read more: http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/11/25/recount-would-have-move-quickly/94417686/
Sound like she's serious about this.
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Yeah that works. 
"I just can't imagine why someone who is almost 1.4 million votes behind would request this," he said. "If your votes came in at 1% of the overall total of the vote, it doesn't make a lot of sense that you should be able to request a recount and put the whole state through this."
He said he did not think there was a way to prevent the recount but he would consider legislation that would allow candidates to force recounts only if they lost by a small margin.
Mark Morgan, executive director of the state Republican Party, said: "Jill Stein's decision to pursue a recount is absurd and nothing more than an expensive political stunt that undermines Wisconsin's election process. Wisconsin voters spoke loud and clear, Democrats and their liberal allies lost decisively and now they are promoting a desperate last-minute tactic to silence Wisconsin voters."
The Clinton campaign has not commented on the recount effort.
Hey sounds familiar.
State law allows any candidate on the ballot to request a recount, but if the margin is more than 0.25 percent, the candidate must pay for its cost.
Haas said the recount would cost at least $500,000.
The commission is reviewing state law to determine when that money would be due.
"There's a little bit of ambiguity in the statutes," Haas said. "In one place, it states that the fee must be paid at the time the petition is filed; another statute indicates once the petition is filed, that's when our agency calculates an estimate."
Once a recount order is issued by the commission, clerks across the state have 13 days to complete it, Haas said.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/25/503349326/people-have-donated-millions-to-jill-steins-recount-campaign-is-it-worth-it
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The Commission has received the Stein and Del La Fuente recount petitions. Details and news release posted soon at http://elections.wi.gov .
https://twitter.com/WI_Elections/status/802264791737716736
What's the payoff if the result is exactly the same?
p.s. Stein got half her of her own votes swiped in WI:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/wi/wisconsin_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson_vs_stein-5976.html
