Wisconsin’s historic presidential recount ended Monday resulting in a net gain of 131 votes for President-elect Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said.
Trump added 844 votes to his total for the Nov. 8 election, while Clinton added 713.
Overall, the commission said, voters cast 2.976 million ballots. The recount resulted in a net increase of 837 ballots.
“Completing this recount was a challenge, but the real winners are the voters,” Elections Commission Chairman Mark Thomsen said in a statement after signing off on the statewide results. “Based on the recount, they can have confidence that Wisconsin’s election results accurately reflect the will of the people, regardless of whether they are counted by hand or by machine.”
The last statewide recount, in a 2011 Supreme Court race, resulted in a net change of 312 votes for the top two candidates out of 1.5 million ballots cast.
The commission originally advised county clerks to complete their recount process by 8 p.m. Monday so it could certify the results on Tuesday, the last day federal law guarantees a state’s electoral votes will reflect the popular vote when the Electoral College convenes on Dec. 19.
On Monday, the boards of canvassers in the final four counties — Dane, Milwaukee, Outagamie and Rock — certified their results. Dane County was the last to complete ballot-counting, on Saturday night.
The recount of nearly 3 million votes began Dec. 1 after Green Party candidate Jill Stein paid the estimated $3.5 million cost.
The actual cost won’t be known until counties report their costs by Dec. 30. Stein will be responsible for paying any amount over the original estimate and will be refunded if the cost is less.
Last week, a federal judge rejected a lawsuit by Trump supporters seeking to halt the recount.
Stein’s campaign has said the goal of the recount was to affirm the validity of the election amid concerns about foreign powers trying to influence the outcome of the election.
Gov. Scott Walker expressed appreciation for the work done by the state’s 72 county clerks and hundreds of full-time, part-time and temporary employees.
“They’ve shown all throughout this process that it was very clear that the vote was legitimate here in the state,” Walker said.
Elections commissioner Don Millis on Monday criticized Stein’s decision to seek a recount as “an abuse of the system.”
He said he doubted the commission would take a position on making changes to the state’s recount law, as Walker and some Republicans in the Legislature have advocated.
Thomsen disagreed that Stein’s decision was an abuse.
He said it amounted to an audit of the state’s entire election system at no cost to taxpayers. Typically the state spends $30,000 to audit election machines in 100 randomly selected municipalities.
Thomsen also said there was no evidence that any of the voting systems that were used to tabulate the votes on election night were hacked or tampered with.
“I’m personally very happy it was done,” Thomsen said. “Because not only Wisconsin but the world knows that our system has integrity.”
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Hey Lefties;
I was hoping to bring youses some good news to help you make it through the 5th week anniversary of THE most devastatingly complete and unadulterated evisceration of the failed ideology that defines your incoherently forlorn Lefty lives.
But alas, that won't be the case.
Turns out one of your prominent Lefty democrat heroes is not ONLY an evil Billionaire, but a xenophobic, misogynistic, bigoted, racist HATER to boot!
That person? None other than Bill Gates!
He couldn't possibly be anything else according to the hysterically laughable illogic of LaLaLoonyLeftyLand, could he?
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/12/13/after-talking-with-trump-bill-gates-likens-president-elect-to-jfk.html
After meeting with The Donald, Gates did not dismiss him as youses would have liked; with a completely unhinged, virulently visceral hatred fostered by your tell-tale monumental chronic ButtHurt.
To wit:
Gates told CNBC yesterday that he believed The Donald would seek "American leadership through innovation.''
"A lot of his message has been about ... where he sees things not as good as he'd like,
"But in the same way President Kennedy talked about the space mission and got the country behind that," Gates continued, "I think whether it's education or stopping epidemics ... [or] in this energy space, there can be a very upbeat message that [Trump's] administration [is] going to organize things, get rid of regulatory barriers, and have American leadership through innovation."
Oh my Gunny Sacks (H/T @GDHM)!!!
Is Gates off the ranch?
Will youse rabid Lefties purge your 'boop-beep-beep' inventory of Microsoft products?
Wait a minute, didn't Apple's late Steve Jobs dislike Hopey Changey?
Whoa Nellie, THAT'LL certainly set your widdle heads on tilt, am I right?
And on yer anniversary, no less!
Poor Lefty, sad Lefty, ButtHurt Lefty, got absolutely PASTED at the polls Lefty.
I'd suggest you take a good long look at yer approach to life, but we ALL know that just ain't in yer skill set, am I right?
Heartbreak!
The Gotch
And the Alt-Left loons STILL refuse to acknowledge that 8 years of COLOSSAL faux "presidential" never-ending race-baiting, pro-Muslim-crazy-"religion-of-peace" promoting BS, endemic and EXCEPTIONAL incompetence ON TOP OF almost 40 YEARS of Clintonian duplicity, dishonesty, deceit and pile of dead bodies ( incidental "suicides" of people at the height of their careers) ARE the reasons that TRUMP glided into the WH over a BRILLIANTLY GLOWING RED electoral map of the USA. Damn those "deplorables" daring to vote and exercise their right to their civic 1st Amendment! Damn them! Now get back to get back on line to pose for more selfies in front of your patron saint, the Starbucks Mermaid logo and be sure to use that shiny new safety-pin to secure your preciously-draped hijab and crawl back to that safe-space to text your next Pizza order...YOU put Trump in the WH so stop your childish temper tantrums...YOU have already crapped your diapers enough!
It wasn't a waste. It gives us a good laugh at all the idiots who donated.
The PATHETICALLY GUTLESS "Report Abuse" C0WARD(S) strike again.
Reposting:
Hey Lefties;
Why haven't you brought up that The Donald blurted out on a hot mic a message intended for Vlady:
"After My Election, I'll Have More Flexibility."
Wait a minute; that was Hopey Changey?
Perhaps that's why?
Never mind!
The Gotch
The PATHETICALLY GUTLESS "Report Abuse" C0WARD(S) strike again.
Reposting 2.0:
You really want to see some cascading careening caca?
Just wait'll this article's headline updates to the 844 MORE votes for the President-elect!
Ah Lefty; so MUCH hypocrisy (and heartbreak!), so little time!
The Gotch
The PATHETICALLY GUTLESS "Report Abuse" C0WARD(S) strike again.
Reposting 2.0:
Ruh Roh!!
Pitiably pathetic Lefty Meltdown in 5....4.....3.....KERSPLOOEY!!!!!!
Is "free" (read: at the expense of others) counselling & "safe space'' assignment, (replete with games, hot cocoa, & emotional support animals) still at the ready?
I sense some fast-approaching special-snow-FLAKE-hothouse-flower mass Lefty freak-outs in our near future.
The Gotch
Take 2.
Reposting FYEE, for your enjoyment and edification. Every time a liberal deletes a comment, another Conservative gets his wings. Godless gutless censorious cowards would proglobotically burn books, too. "When you can't compete,(in the free marketplace of ideas) you must delete." ---Uncle Al "Worldwide" Webb.
Good Dogs,
Did the Putinous Villain and Russia help Trump win? No way. No how.
Anything can be claimed as helping Trump win the election.
This fake news is just sore loser syndrome made manifest.
The Mainstream Media, which was actively trying to defeat Trump, helped him win. The Justice Department politicizing the server case, helped Trump win.
The DNC, which stole the nomination from Bernie Sanders, helped Trump win.
By calling us all "irredeemable deplorables", Hillary helped Trump win.
The snootyelite snobboberists are the mirror image of everything they claim to hate.
Their hypocrisy knows no bounds, their ability to unflinchingly examine their own beliefs is practically non-existent. They are almost incapable of objectively examining the misanthropic policies they advocate. Everyone else is wrong.
Their misanthropic myopia maligns everyone but themselves.
Being a liberal is the easiest thing in the world. You don't have to think to be a Democrat, you only have to FEEL and go with the emotive flow.
Democrats are obtuse. The Devil's Own Donkey's are stubbornly locked into their narrow-minded orthodoxy, and they're not very introspective, are they?
That’s a big problem for Democrats, ... they don’t like looking into the mirror any more than We, the Good American People of Wisconsin like looking AT them.
I get that one of the stages of grief is denial. In fact, it’s the first one. Since having their posteriors handed to them and their collective clocks cleaned Democrats haven’t moved past stage one. I like them when they've evolved to the anger stage.
They're fun to watch and listening to their liberal lament warms my cockles.
Trump's only been President-elect for a month and already fuel prices are down,
and the markets are setting new records. He would've already solved GlowBull Warming and made the floodwaters recede, too, but for the hyperbolic heat of proglobotic anger and the flood of liberal tears.
Voofda! The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
GDHM [cool]
dawg:
Gas prices are up everywhere in the state. 2016 will be the hottest year in history, beating 2015. Ice caps are melting, sea levels rising. Gonna give trump credit for that as well?
I own oil stock, it's colder than the ninth circle of hell tonight, and I've always wanted to surf but didn't want to drive that far, so again tell me why I should be against rising gas prices, warmer weather, and the prospect of ocean front property in Baraboo?
out:
If that is what spins ya, go for it. But just remember, that ocean front property in the Baraboo hills is going to be pretty crowded. I was just pointing out the chronic lack of truth in dawgs posts. He has used this one on multiple threads wirth the same results, every time it is a lie.
hankdog said, "every time it is a lie."
Please identify the actual lies.
Of course this could be just another one of your routine Boy Who Cried Wolf Blogger false claims that you refuse to support with evidence?
Resurrected,
Don't look for hankpuppy to come back and identify any actual lies.
The little ankle biter's little pointed proglobotic bald pate only pops up to snipe.
After you called him out, he was last seen with his tail firmly tucked and headed for the tall grass.
GDHM
GOD DOG HAPPY MAN said, "Don't look for hankpuppy to come back and identify any actual lies. The little ankle biter's little pointed proglobotic bald pate only pops up to snipe."
So you're basically saying that by asking someone, like hankdog, to back up their claims, it's the equivalent of intellectually disarming them; doesn't that identify the moniker as a Hit & Run Troll?
Start with this one: "Trump's only been President-elect for a month and already fuel prices are down". Just filled up, gas was up 5 cents a gallon since Saturday. Up 19 cents since election day. World oil $ per barrel also up. You can look it up.
hankdog,
It depends on what "fuel" (the word GDHM used ) you choose to look at and where you are in the USA. Here are the weekly prices for Residential Heating Oil (otherwise known as fuel oil) in the state of Wisconsin...
10/03/2016 = $2.154
10/10/2016 = $2.210
10/17/2016 = $2.193
10/24/2016 = $2.160
10/31/2016 = $2.121
11/07/2016 = $2.062
11/14/2016 = $1.991
11/21/2016 = $2.002
11/28/2016 = $2.025
12/05/2016 = $2.081
12/12/2016 = $2.145
SOURCE: https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=W_EPD2F_PRS_SWI_DPG&f=W
What's clear looking at those prices is that compared to the last week of October the price has been lower until this week. So depending on the last times you checked the prices of Fuel Oil what GDHM stated could be truthful from his perspective. Was it a lie, absolutely not.
As usual, your narrow partisan view has been proven wrong.
Would you like to try to challenge another "lie"?
res: Nope, one lie is enough to prove dawg is a liar, and that you can't rationalize yourself out of a wet paper bag. Price of fuel went up, look it up. Oh, you did, and I was right, dawg was wrong. Imagine that !
Now you can have the last word.
hankdog said, "Nope, one lie is enough to prove dawg is a liar, and that you can't rationalize yourself out of a wet paper bag."
All these real world examples put in front of you over the last year as teaching tools and I still haven't gotten through to the reasoning side of your brain. You're either being intentionally obtuse or you still don't understand what a lie is, what rationalizations are, how to use math as a tool, and the difference between right and wrong.
hankdog said, "Now you can have the last word."
Consumed by the dark side you are, I have failed young padawan.
UW adding for Spring Semester 20 classes for coping with sticking themselves with safety pins, crying, uneasiness, sadness, fear, anger. Suck it up. We gave Obama 8 years to make a difference (fail), give Trump a chance.
Looks like a "fail" before day one!
I'm old, this is gonna be your problem!
Learn Russian as soon as possible, comrade.
RichManitob said, "UW adding for Spring Semester 20 classes for coping with sticking themselves with safety pins, crying, uneasiness, sadness, fear, anger. Suck it up. We gave Obama 8 years to make a difference (fail), give Trump a chance."
Sounds like you're talking about those Coddled Political Wimps.
Now that we know Trump WON Wisconsin, can we know how many state & UW systems employees working on Climate Change!
Letters are on the way!!
Snooty, a gas emitting puckered brown eye like you does more harm to the climate than any other pollutant found on this planet.
Very glad they did it. I wasn't too concerned about our machines. They are pretty safe.
I was very concerned that the Walker/ Schimel Crime Syndicate had figured a way to mess with the tabulations afterward.
It looks like they're innocent. For once.
So each additional Trump vote only cost Jill Stein about $27,000 per vote!
Now let's Recount California, NewYork, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico.
Here is the going rate for the following:
1) Social Security Card: $350.00
2) Drivers License - Free
3) Fake US Passport issued by private Ghanaian company $3-5000 that will bring you to US through Immigration & customs.
4) Utility Bill in your name: FREE
5) Sanctuary City Inspired Illegal Hillary Voting 2.8 milion
Bust up Democrat Party Scam - PRICELESS
Meh! Just 131 additional deplorable people counted than a week ago!
UW adding for Spring Semester a dozen more Russian Language classes.
Trump picks up 131 more votes. Awesome, that means he only lost the popular vote by 2,843,472 votes (as of today.)
And yet still short of her California margin of 3.5 million votes. So Trump wins the popular vote in 49 states and HRC wins California.
commonsense7474.......You are 100% correct......well said!
My reply is also 100% correct.......Hillary received 232 electoral votes.
Trump received 306 ELECTORAL VOTES.
This makes Trump the next PRESIDENT.
Both of us are correct and what changed?
Mr Trump IS the 45th president.
Take an aspirin and go to bed early.
When you wake up......Trump will STILL be the next president.
Time to realize you can talk all day about vote totals.
But still lose to the electoral votes.
Sucks it up there buttercup, you lost Trump won ( I didn't vote for either Hillary or the Donald) but at least I can except the results and pray for hope and change.
"pray for hope and change." You must have calluses on your knees by now.
Thanks to Jill Stein and her supporters a group of wonderful Wisconsinites made a little extra $$$ this month. As for the clowns that chipped in for Stein's sham, you got fleeced. You deserve to be ridiculed for all time for supporting Stein and her scheme. WI, MI, PA. Wow.....picking those 3 states was a stroke of true genius by Stein. She played her Green Party backers like total fools and stole their money in broad daylight.
Another brain dead non sequitur from our favorite right wing moron, HamburgerAnderson.
"and already fuel prices are down,and the markets are setting new records."
ACTUALLY the NASBO says the next recession is right around the corner.
So, enjoy the rest of your wretched lives, you get what you play for.
Stock prices are up, but fuel price are also going up.
I guess that was worth $3.5 million, right?
[crying] What was wrong with that woman? Was she trying to make Trump's lead big enough so that her votes taken away from Democrats didn't cause Hillary to lose?
Stein and the recount brought $3+ million into the state economy, is that bad? People were employed and made some extra money just before Xmas. Nobody ever thought that the outcome would change, it wasn't taxpayer money, and was a more successful economic positive than WDEC has done. Why the complaints?
It's not as if Hillary did not have enough left over to pay for that herself.
Well dawg, gas is up 12 cents since election day in this part of the world. And 2016 will be the warmest year in history, and was even before the election. Get your facts straight..
I guess the recount was rigged, in that it failed to identify the busloads of voters brought up from Chicago, it failed to clarify exactly how many thousand of dead persons voted, failed to put the finger on the thousands who voted more than once, did not find evidence of votes by non-eligibles, and so forth. How are we supposed to now verify the fears of certain elements of our political class?
The only force hostile to America that I saw operating in a way to influence the election in favor of one candidate over the other is the American media.
The biggest spreaders of #fakenews are the dems and their media lapdogs.
We got to see Clinton defeated on Nov 8th, and now with the results in again, we've seen her defeated a 2nd time, and come next week, we'll get to see her lose a 3rd time. I'd like to see a nationwide recount, and see her defeated again just for the fun of it.
"Trump's only been President-elect for a month and already fuel prices are down.... " What has Mr. Trump done to lower them? Moreover, gas prices at the pump have been inching back upward, at least here in Madison. Is that Mr. Trump's responsibility?
As we know that Russians hacked Hillary's campaign plane to be unable to find Wisconsin, so must believe that Russians also hacked the election directly through ballots. And so Hillary lost Wisconsin, the Midwest and the nation. It had nothing to do with calling people deplorables, not having a jobs plan or being caught lying on important actions.
What is your definition for a group of pathetic, sore losers?
Or how about this; why did Donald Trump win the presidency?
1) Russian hackers
2) Fake News
3) misogynists living in North Carolina & Florida
4) Racist voters in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin
5) FBI Director Jim Comey
6) The archaic Electoral College
We can only hope the Democratic Party and their loyal MSM b*tt-boys & girls will eventually settle on a single topic just to give their arguement a modicum of coherence.
HA HA! Fake news! I love that one. Do the Dems remember Dan Rather and his fake Bush National Guard story? And the fake "work-place violence" narrative for Nidal Hasan killing 13 people at Fort Hood? And "If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it"? And the Benghazi "video" whopper? And "Hands up, don't shoot"? And the "Iran deal is good for peace"? And the Bowe Bergdahl "exchange" was great negotiations? And Cuba has "great healthcare" and Castro was "wonderful"?
But my favorite: "Trump has no pathway to victory. He will never be President".
Yeah, there IS a lot of Fake News out there.
The Dems are rudderless. They'll grasp at anything that rationalizes their butt-kicking. But as long as they tilt at windmills, they will remain in the wilderness.
They have eyes, but they can't see. They have ears, but can't hear.
Poor lost buttercups.
the national guard story was actually true, it was dan rather using fake details he was fed by Bush operatives that was the problem,. no one ever collected the million dollars offered to anyone who would testify under oath that they ever saw bush at his LANG post in New Orleans. Bush was was awol. Period
@phantastischfeldswebel - below:
Yeah, you need some new tinfoil. Even Dan Rather (who got axed) ain't spreading that manure.
Soooooooooooooo.... after ALL that money was spent there is NO discernable change.
I'd say that's a perfect example of what Democrats always do.
If it's all about election integrity and honesty, why didn't the post menopausal leftist demand a recount in NV where there's proven massive voter fraud? Oh yeah, crooked hillary of the clinton crime duo won that one.
You really are the bottom of humanity's sickest.
We should be proud of our accuracy. That's not a big difference for almost 3 million total ballots cast. And the recount is right on schedule. No Florida style embarrassment for Sconnie.
Stein is obviously a Russian agent who infiltrated our election system.
No, she is just another fib.
Oh no Trump got 131 more votes in Wisconsin!
Time to ask the shrink to up the meds!
And for this so called find on that Hacking info on the RNC & DNP or who and what ever.
Came from the same "Intelligent Agency " that back Bush and all those war mongers that Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction"
To funny.
It is a sham to :"recount" electronically-counted votes by electronic machines, and shameful to certify that the votes were recounted.
Trump widens his lead? Impossible. Count again!
All those whin bags who said the recount was a waste of time and effort and who voted "Trump" ticket now you can shut up.
All we heard from the GOP in Wisconsin was how much voter fraud there was.
Heard out of "Trump" throughout the election was the system was rigged.
P.C. I agree with you! Were is this so called voter fraud.
Election fraud cannot be uncovered when the the same voting machines that may have been corrupted are used to count the ballets again.
It's called a "ballot", Bloggydoggy, not a ballet.
A ballet is where you PeterPanProglobots and Pajama Boyz get to play dress up and wear a tutu. Looks better than than victimhoodie you've been sportin', sport.
Wis_BlogRider,
What election fraud Wis_BlogRider, there is zero evidence of election fraud, the machines were checked, double checked, triple checked and randomly checked during the process. Your innuendo is full of c r a p!
So are you ready to whip out your hammer and sickle and take to the streets in violent protest after the soon to come Electoral College vote making the election official and giving the win officially to Trump?
Unless the electoral college votes according to popular vote and Clinton officially wins!
Good Dogs,
Russian hackers! Russian Hackers? RUSSIAN HACKERS!???
What exactly did they hack? The voting machines? The paper ballots?
Gimmee a break. #Finest Fake News, Fine As Frog Hair
Maybe it's just sore loser syndrome by the liberal lapdog MSM, because Pravda was much more effective at influencing our election than they were.
You'd a thunk they would've moved from the first step of grieving, DENIAL, by now,
No, Good Dogs, the DemonRatz lost the old fashioned way, ... they earned it.
It was self-inflicted.
But it must be getting crowded under the collectivist cribs of loony-toon Lefties.
The usual Lefty boogymen are hiding and time-sharing space under there with all those wascuwwy wepubwiccans, the Koch Brothers, Russian hackers, Diane Hendricks, Gov. Scott "Awesomesauce" Walker and that poor fella ALEC.
Lefty better loosen the straps of their homemade tinfoil head gear, they're obviously not getting enough oxygenated blood up to their nether regions.
Oh, my gunny sacks! Proglobotic pointed heads are exploding, especially after Trump appointed a real "science denier" to head the Gaia-worshipping EPA!!!
Sure, it's another much needed shovel-ready job, ... but a really disgusting dirty job.
Who's going to clean up all the GREEN pudding? Not me.
GDHM
A good time to reintroduce ID voting requirements to ensure Russia doesn't have any influence on our election process.
Can we please move on now? Please!
Jill Stein is as big a liar as Hillary... her only goal was to try and screw up the 270 electoral vote lead.... otherwise she would have contested at least one of the three where Hillary won.
Desperate measures by unethical people..
Donald won 2600 counties to Hillery's 37...glad the country will not be run by the population centers but rather the average american
Time for Chuck Todd of NBC and the New York Times to allege that the Wisconsin recount was influenced by Russia.
True. More fake news from the msm.
ok now where is this voter fraud walker has been talking about?
Recounts don't go into if votes are legal or not moron. Try educating yourself, although I know that's hard for a liberal. Vote Audits are what uncovers voter fraud, recounts just recount said ballots, nothing more, nothing less.
TrumprektsYou,
Don't waste your time with patriot citizen, he doesn't have the mental capacity to understand logic; his comments suggest that correlation equals causation, ad hominem deflections are acceptable form of communication, and above all The Ends Justify The Means.
There was none because voter ID is in place. Were you not paying attention?
Wanna buy a fake ID?[scared]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsaTElBljOE
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