The Sconi

The Trump campaign has already expressed its intention to request a recount in several states, including Wisconsin. 

In 2016, Green Party candidate Jill Stein faced a similar road. She requested a recount in Wisconsin that was shut down by the courts. 

Stein’s lawyers called the recount process “anti-voter” due to the arbitrary nature of election laws. 

Unexpectedly, Stein has continued to pursue the legal challenge to this day. 

Unlike in other states, voting machines in Wisconsin are largely unregulated and companies that produce the machines are known for their secretive nature. 

While Stein’s legal team has been muzzled by the court for now on speaking out publicly about the performance of voting machines in 2016, a judge did give the former presidential candidate permission to present her findings to the public regarding her team’s findings on whether the ballot-counting machines may have been hacked or not operating effectively after they audit the machines. 

The Green Party team also has not been able to fully audit the voting machines and are still awaiting judges to weigh in four years later.

“[W]hen Stein sought access to the software code used in Wisconsin’s voting machines — something state law permits for recount petitioners — the vendors who made the voting machines waged a protracted legal fight that has left Stein’s computer experts still waiting to see the code, four years later,” Politico reporter Kim Zetter recently reported.

As of Tuesday, Joe Biden was ahead in five key states with only slim margins. 

Several states are preparing for recounts and the final presidential vote has yet to be finalized, voters are reminded of ensuring the integrity of elections, particularly those with a slim margin, from all irregularities. 

Latest vote counts show Trump trailing in Georgia by 12,651 votes, Arizona by 14,468 votes, Wisconsin by 20,540 votes, Pennsylvania by 48,997 votes and Nevada by 36,274 votes.