The latest updates on the Election Day recount efforts in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, Florida, and Nevada have come in.
The federal deadline for all the recounts is Tuesday, Dec. 13, while the 538 Electoral College members will meet to elect the president-elect on Dec. 19.
Former Green Party candidate Jill Stein is pushing for broader recount efforts in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. She raised more than $6.5 million in an online fund for the recount efforts in the battleground states, where Donald Trump defeated Hillary Clinton. Nevada’s recount was initiated independently of Stein’s efforts, while voters in Florida have filed a lawsuit for a recount in the state.
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania’s Chester County will begin a hand recount sought by Green Party-backed voters of more than 190,000 paper ballots cast on Election Day, it announced.
The county approved the recount on Thursday, just five days before the federal deadline for states to certify results, AP reported. It’s unclear how long it'll take, a county spokeswoman said.
While Stein’s team haven’t been able to produce evidence on hacking or irregularities, they described Pennsylvania’s voting system as a “national disgrace.”
A federal court will hold a hearing on Friday on whether to proceed with a statewide recount in Pennsylvania. U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond in Philadelphia scheduled the hearing.
On Tuesday, Pennsylvania election officials updated the state’s vote count to show that Trump’s lead over Clinton had shrunk to about 44,000 out of more than 6 million ballots cast in the state. That is still shy of Pennsylvania’s 0.5 percent trigger for an automatic statewide recount. A state spokeswoman said 15 provisional ballots remained uncounted, AP reported.
