A federal court in Wisconsin has denied an emergency halt to the recount of the presidential vote. Two pro-Trump political action committees, the Great America PAC and Stop Hillary PAC filed a lawsuit and a request in federal court in Madison on Friday for a temporary restraining order seeking to stop the voter recount. Similar lawsuits were launched to delay recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania Press TV reports: They argued that it is an unconstitutional violation of the rights of people, who had voted for President-elect Donald Trump, and that the recount runs the risk of preventing Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes from being counted. Wisconsin elections officials have said they are determined to finishing the recount by December 13. US District Judge James Peterson on Friday afternoon denied the motion to halt the recount, saying there would be no harm in the process to continue until a December 9 court hearing at least. On Friday, Trump’s supporters also moved to halt election recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton narrowly lost these three states to Trump. If Clinton had won all of these states’ 46 Electoral College votes, it would have been enough for her to win the White [...]
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