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Local clerks around Wisconsin will have about a day less than expected to complete a recount of the presidential ballots cast earlier this month. The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday approved a timeline for completing a recount of the state's presidential vote, which calls for having results submitted to the agency no later than 8 p.m. on December 12. The Commission had originally planned to give clerks until December 13, but pushed up the deadline amid concerns the WEC may not have enough time to review and certify the results before a federal deadline.
Jill Stein is on track to raise twice as much for an election recount effort than she did for her own failed Green Party presidential bid. Fueled by the social media hashtag #recount2016 and millions of dispirited Hillary Clinton voters, Stein's recount drive had already netted $6.3 million by Monday, according to her campaign website.
One of the central tenets of the Federal Reserve and most central banks throughout the developed world in the modern era has been their ability to stay above the political fray. With a few notable - and fairly disastrous - exceptions, the Fed has acted without fear of political retribution from the executive branch, although the chair still has to testify to Congress and the president periodically.
On election night, as it became clear that Donald Trump would be the country's next president, Dorcas Lind was feeling unsettled. With her children tucked in bed, Lind watched as the results trickled in and battleground states like Pennsylvania, Florida and North Carolina turned red on the TV map.
Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign will take part in a recount of Wisconsin votes in the U.S. presidential race, an effort Republican winner Donald Trump called "ridiculous." Wisconsin's election board on Friday approved the recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
President-elect Donald Trump claims he only lost the popular vote to rival Hillary Clinton because of "millions of people who voted illegally." Trump's bizarre outburst, even by his standards, comes after the Clinton campaign announced that it will participate in an election recount.
Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein said Sunday she would be in support of looking into possible voter fraud in additional states, if necessary. Experts pointed us towards WI, PA, & MI as the largest chance of fraud, but we would support efforts elsewhere to uphold election integrity.
As Election Day approached, so-called fake news seemed everywhere: intentionally false stories dressed up as news reports, misleading social-media posts, clickbait headlines, hyperpartisan opinion posing as fact. Among the false stories' claims: Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump, the NYPD was investigating Bill Clinton for sex with underage girls, and ISIS called for Muslims in America to vote for Hillary Clinton.
New York/Mar-a-Lago [U.S.A], Nov. 28 : United States president-elect Donald Trump has attacked the Hillary Clinton campaign for coming out in support of a recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin. [NK US] Trump, according to informed sources, reminded his one-time Democratic presidential rival that she had already conceded the elections to him, and also published remarks from the presidential debates in which she had urged all Americans to accept the poll results.
The Wisconsin elections commission chair said Monday that while the state is taking the necessary steps for an election recount, he does not expect it to change the state's election results. "I fully expect, given the history of how elections are conducted in Wisconsin ... that the outcome is not going to be different" than the current results, Mark Thomsen, chair of the state's elections commission, said at a news conference Monday.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has accused former Democratic presidential rival Hillary Clinton of reneging on her concession speech certifying the results of the Nov. 28 presidential election. Trump, in a series of tweets on the recount, condemned Clinton's support to the votes recount efforts by Green Party nominee Jill Stein for Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.
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US President-elect Donald Trump has asserted he won the popular vote on 8 November "if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally". It comes after the camp of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton said it would support a vote recount in Wisconsin initiated by a Green Party candidate.
Wisconsin election officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss a possible timeline for a recount of the state's presidential election. The recount comes at the request of Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who says it's important to determine whether hacking may have affected the results.
President-elect Donald Trump claimed without evidence Sunday that "millions" voted illegally in the national election, scoffing at Hillary Clinton's nearly 2 million edge in the popular vote and returning to his campaign mantra of a rigged race even as he prepares to enter the White House in less than two months. Trump and his lieutenants assailed an effort - now joined by Clinton - to recount votes in up to three battleground states, calling the push fraudulent, the work of "crybabies" and, in Trump's estimation, "sad."
Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that "millions" voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House. Donald Trump sent a series of tweets over 12 hours attacking moves to force election recounts in three states Donald Trump has claimed without evidence that "millions" voted illegally in the presidential election and said it was rigged even as he prepares to enter the White House.
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Cruz said on ABC News' This Week that the death of the longtime Cuban leader presents "an interesting test" for U.S. officials over the the next few days. "It is a real opportunity for U.S. officials to show where they stand.
After all that has transpired since, it may seem like ancient history by now, but one of Vice President-Elect Mike Pence's comments during the debate between the Vice Presidential candidates raised an issue of considerable interest to cognitive scientists. Mr. Pence suggested that politicians should stop citing implicit bias among police officers "every time tragedy occurs," and he criticized Hillary Clinton for asserting that everyone possesses implicit biases.