Machines, suggesting the procedures that wisconsin does to secure its machine simply arent enough. We will have more as the hearing continues well into this evening. Toya thank you. As kent was mentioning there is , a new price tag associated with the recount. Patrick 12 news terry sater has been crunching the numbers. Hes live in milwaukee. Terry, what did you learn . Im live near kk and becher on the cities south aside where , recounting its ballots. This is the milwaukee election commissions warehouse and the , ballots from each municipality will be delivered here for the recount. We have over 440,000 ballots that need to be recounted, and thats simply a time consuming process. Milwaukee county clerk Joseph Czarnezki has the most ballots to recount with an estimated cost of more than a half million dollars. Divided by the number of a hand recount could cost even more. Well have approximately 100 people a day working on the recount. Thats a lot of people looking over each ballot begi
About an hour and a half. Lawyers for Green Party Candidate jill stein, who requested the recount, are arguing that the entire statewide recount be done by hand. The state Elections Commission says that would costly, time consuming, and is unnecessary, and that stein has shown no evidence of any irregularities or tampering. The court now hearing phoned in testimony from witnesses for stein. The first witness inhouse was a Computer Science professor who testified that it is possible for wisconsins Voting Machines to be hacked. The only way to be sure they were secure is to recount by hand, but he also acknowledged hes seen no evidence of any irregularities with the vote. This hearing started around 4 30 which was also the time that the , Stein Campaign wired its payment of 3. 5 million to the Election Commission to get the recount off the ground and rolling. The process will begin on thursday. We dont know how that will play the deadline. She could end up paying more. The estimate now i
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