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‘Nothing will change’ as a result of vote recount, says Trump

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday on Twitter that “nothing will change” as a result of the campaign to…

‘Nothing will change’ as a result of vote recount, says Trump

US President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday on
Twitter that “nothing will change” as a result of the campaign to
recount the votes cast in three states in the November 8 presidential election.

The recount campaign is being headed by the Green
Party’s presidential candidate Jill Stein, EFE news reported.

In a series of tweets, Trump said that his main
rival for the White House, Democratic Hillary Clinton, “conceded the
election when she called me just prior to (my) victory speech and after the
results were in”.

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In addition, the next day, Clinton telephoned Trump
to say that “we have to accept the results and look to the future”,
he said, paraphrasing what she had said in one of the presidential debates.

“So much time and money will be spent — same
result! Sad,” the President-elect went on to say, via Twitter.

Stein’s campaign last Wednesday launched a
fundraising effort to finance vote recounts in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan,
all of which Trump apparently won by narrow margins.

Wisconsin announced on Friday that it will conduct a
vote recount in response to the formal request presented by Stein and another
independent presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente.

According to the Green candidate’s campaign, there
is “compelling evidence of anomalies” in voting in the three states
in question and, therefore, it is necessary to verify the results in those
states’ counties that depend on electronic voting machines to tally the ballots.

Clinton’s campaign, meanwhile, is backing the
decision by Wisconsin authorities to conduct the recount despite saying that no
irregularities have been detected in the election, and it said that it will
also support recounts in Pennsylvania and Michigan if the Green Party, as
expected, formally requests them, EFE news added.

On Saturday, Trump issued a statement in which he
called the Green Party’s effort a “scam”.

“The people have spoken and the election is
over,” Trump said. “We must accept this result and then look to the
future. This recount is just a way for Jill Stein to fill her coffers with
money, most of which she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount.”

Despite the fact that Trump garnered more than 270
electoral votes, which technically is all that is required to win the
presidency, Clinton received more than two million more votes than the
real-estate mogul in the nationwide popular vote, according to the Cook
Political Report Web page.

During the campaign, Trump was the one who had
warned numerous times of possible election fraud and denounced the electoral
system as being “rigged” against him, going so far as to threaten not
to recognise the results of the election if he lost.

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