Detroit — A federal judge issued an order Wednesday that effectively suspended a recount of the Nov. 8 presidential election that started three days ago and has yet to reveal fraud or significantly alter the results.
The manual statewide recount cost as much as $3 million but stopped after U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith lifted a temporary restraining order preventing state officials from stopping a recount prompted by Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein.
A state election board meeting scheduled for Thursday meeting was canceled.
Stein failed to show she was an aggrieved candidate as defined by state law and entitled to a recount, the judge said.
He concluded Stein’s request to test the election system’s vulnerability to fraud lacked evidence. Detroit News