mean assure the process is fair to all parties? what i assume it means and if you read the actual letter from mark elias. it s very lawyerly, rerestrained, very responszible. and i think as the attorney for the campaign, he would have to, probably in his contract frankly that he has to show up whenever there s a recount all of the candidates and representatives and just keep an eye on things just to make sure that the other people aren t cheating just to make sure that everybody knows that they re being watched. it s a small but very important part of the responsibility of the attorneys and so i don t think they re going to go much more beyond that and i think frankly it s a little bit almost inaccurate to say that they re driving it. they re not paying for it. they didn t ask for it. no democratic officials in wisconsin have associated themselves with this. nobody has accused anybody of cheating. but, the campaign, if they re going to open up the ballots and do a recount, every camp
fill up their coffers by asking for impossible recounts is now being joined by the badly defeated and demoralized dems. well this morning the chief counsel for the clinton campaign mark elias also is responding on the favorite medium here of twitter. he says this, we re getting attacked for participating in a recount that we didn t ask for by the man who won the election but this there was massive fraud here. so what is going to happen in wisconsin later this week after the election board meets this morning? most likely is to go over all of the ballots again, because it was requested here. now the clinton campaign s trying to make clear that they are not requesting this. they re just simply participating in overseeing this. but carol republicans having a field day on this because they say this election is over fair and square. one thing to keep an eye on, also, michigan and pennsylvania, states donald trump also was victorious in. there may be recounts requests there as well. all this
are doubts in the minds of american voters, whether they were green party, libertarians, or democrats or republicans, and she is trying to soothe the fears and the concerns of some of the people by asking for a recount. if donald trump won fair and square, what harm does it do? i agree with jeffrey if he thinks that there s grounds for a recount in some of the other states then do it. he s alleging voter fraud in some of these states again across the spectrum on whether or not voter why idy is on the books or not so if he thinks that fraud exists and that is allegedly the base, right, for republicans pushing forward the suppressive measures then why not do it? i think one of the things that we have not talked about enough, and is prn when we talk about wisconsin, is the fact that voter turnout was the lowest it s been in decades because people dislike both candidates no, no. exactly. and that s fine carol. what has been different this particular election, than any other, is vot
frustration, and reget over that mental hurdle i m confident that our local election officials are going to go to work and be professional as they always are and make sure that we have an accurate and prompt recount. michael haas, thank you so much for joining us on what is sure to be a busy morning for you. sure, thank you. still to come in a bitterly divided nation could a vote recount in wisconsin and perhaps elsewhere heighten tensions even more? we ll talk about that, next. .marvel studios. if my office becomes a plane or an airport the. .surface pro s perfect. fast and portable but also light. you don t do this 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. .if you don t feel it in your heart.
the canvassers to determine whether to have a hand count or a machine count. well here s why i m asking that because if you really do have to count some 3 million votes by hand, and you can t get it done by this december 13th deadline which is a federal plan date, would that mean, because the electoral college meets what six days after december 13th, on the 19th, so would that mean that wisconsin s electoral votes would be thrown out? no. first of all, we have 72 counties, and i expect that many of our counties will be able to complete the recount, even a hand count, within a week s time. our larger counties, that may be a challenge. but in any event that the december 13th deadline is not met, that does not mean the electoral votes are forfeited. it means that congress does not necessarily need to honor the electoral slate, the republican party electoral slate. and then congress would decide could decide