Alwaght- Hillary Clinton’s campaign supported the recent controversy over US presidential elections’ result raised by the Green Party candidate demanding a recount in at least four states.
The democrat candidate’s presidential campaign said on Saturday it would help with efforts to secure recounts in several states, even as the White House defended the declared results as “the will of the American people”.
The campaign’s general counsel, Marc Elias, said in an online post that the campaign felt “an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton”.
Earlier this week Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presidential candidate had launched a petition to ask recounts in several US states, citing irregularities in the declared results.
The petition has been accepted in Wisconsin so far while Stein says she will seek recount in Michigan and Pennsylvania next week.
In response, President-elect Donald Trump called the motion a “scam” to “fill Stein’s coffers with money”. In a statement Trump said “The people have spoken and the election is over, and as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night, in addition to her conceding by congratulating me, ‘We must accept this result and then look to the future.’”
A spokeswoman for Stein did not respond to a request for comment. Speaking to CNN, however, Stein said she had “no contact with the Clinton campaign” and added: “I have said consistently that if there are questions about the accuracy and security I would challenge it, no matter who was the winner.”
Asked what the recount would do for her or for the Green party, Stein said: “We want to know what our vote is, and that our votes are being counted. This is not a partisan effort but we need to have confidence, too”.
Referring to report claiming US election systems had been hacked in several locations, she said “When evidence emerged the system was being hacked all over the place, my conviction only strengthened that this was something we have to do.”
Republican Donald Trump was declared the 45th US president after beating Hilary Clinton in all key state and despite winning less popular votes than Clinton.
