Judge’s Order Suspends Michigan’s Recount

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

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