The Wisconsin Election Commission is slated to start recounting votes for this year’s presidential election Thursday, following a push by Green Party candidate Jill Stein.
Stein managed to raise millions toward the cause, but officials are rejecting her request to hand count the votes, instead allowing each county to determine their own methodology unless her lawsuit is successful, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The decision was made during a special meeting held Monday, despite state election officials saying they are confident the results will remain the same.
“As long as the petition is valid…the commission must issue a recount order,” Michael Haas, the commission’s interim administrator, told The Wall Street Journal.
For the recount to move forward, Stein and the other petitioners will need to pay in full by Tuesday, having raised $6.2 million of the $7 million needed, according to Fox News.
President-elect Donald Trump beat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton by more than 20,000 votes in the Badger State.
Stein cited concern over voter fraud as her reasoning for advocating for a recall, an allegation Trump dismissed as “ridiculous.”
“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than one percent of the vote overall and wasn’t even on the ballot in many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount,” he said in a statement.
Stein is also advocating for recounts to take place in Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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