The Voting News Weekly: The Voting News Weekly for December 5-11 2016
In an interview, Green Presidential candidate Stein bemoaned the now court-aborted Michigan recount process as a “political horror show,” saying, “the recount itself is not accurate, secure, and just, and it reflects that we have a voting system that is seriously flawed.” The Detroit Free News observed that stopping the recount prematurely leaves Michiganders in limbo, noting that “in three days, the recount revealed imperfections in the voting system beyond the concerns that saw it launched.”
Meanwhile, a group of voters requested a recount in Florida and Nevada completed a partial recount. In Wisconsin, a federal judge rejected a request by President-elect Donald Trump supporters to stop a recount of election votes and a Philadelphia judge said he will rule Monday on the Green Party-backed petition for a statewide Pennsylvania recount.
After initially accepting defeat incumbent Gambian President Yahya Jammeh is now rejecting the results and calling for a new election and in Ghana an otherwise smooth election was marred by a hack of the Election Commission website raising questions about the accuracy of the results.