State Board Of Canvassers In Spotlight As Michigan Vote Count Certified
LANSING (WWJ) - A post-election spotlight is shining on the vote count in Michigan and on Monday the State Board of Canvassers will officially receive the presidential election results for the state.
Chris Thomas of the Michigan Department of Elections says there has been a standard audit of the results over the past two weeks.
"We'll do the certification on Tuesday and any candidate who feels aggrieved with those has 48 hours to file a recount petition. They can ask for the entire state - they can ask for some portion of the state," says Thomas.
The Board of State Canvassers is responsible for canvassing and certifying statewide elections, elections for legislative districts that cross county lines and all judicial offices except Judge of the Probate Court, conducting recounts for state-level offices, canvassing nominating petitions filed with the Secretary of State, canvassing state-level ballot proposal petitions, assigning ballot designations and adopting ballot language for statewide ballot proposals, and approving electronic voting systems for use in the state.
Donald Trump has been leading Hillary Clinton by over 10,000 votes.
"So someone would have to know how to actually change that software - have it work in a manner that would be undetected by the logic and accuracy tests that are done before every election," says Thomas. "At this point we are getting pretty far-fetched."
Thomas says after the results are certified, Clinton would have 48 hours to demand a recount, an effort that would cost her campaign around $240,000.
