Green Party candidate Jill Stein could receive a considerable amount of money back from the state of Michigan after its statewide recount was halted by a federal judge this week, according to the Detroit Free Press.
State law stipulates that she had to pay $973,250 for a recount of Michigan’s 7,786 voting precincts. She delivered a check for the recount last week.
Michigan’s Secretary of State is now set to refund her a portion of that money after Michigan recounted a small portion of the state’s precincts, the Free Press reported. U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith stopped the recount effort on Wednesday, as 26 Michigan counties started counting ballots again.
The Free Press reported that 1,364 precincts were counted in all, meaning that Stein still has to pay $170,500.
“That’s fair, that we pay the fee for the ones that were counted,” Stein’s attorney, Mark Brewer, told the paper. “The law provides that for the precincts that were unrecountable, that she should get a refund.”
