Donald Trump WINS Wisconsin recount getting even MORE votes in wake of slamming CIA theory of Russian election hacking
The President-elect got a net gain of 162 votes after Jill Stein's demands for recounts in states of Pennsylvania and Michigan fail
A VOTE recount which was ordered in Wisconsin to see if results for the Presidential election were incorrect have revealed Donald Trump should have got even more votes.
The President-elect was short-changed in the first count by a net gain total of 162.
And it means he ended up beating Democrat Hillary Clinton by pulling in more than 22,000 votes than she did.
It comes in the wake of Trump saying he thought the CIA findings of Russia hacking the vote was a conspiracy theory.
It has left Green Party candidate Jill Stein with egg on her face after she requested and paid for the new recount.
She also tried the same tack in Pennsylvania and Michigan but was blocked by judges, her request proving unsuccessful.
Stein came in with around one percent of the vote in each of the states where Trump narrowly took a narrow victory.
She said the voting machines in all three of the states could have been susceptible to hacking.
The numbers hardly changed in Wisconsin after the recount of nearly three million votes.
The recount in Pennsylvania was blocked on Monday and U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond said there were a number of reasons it could not go ahead.
He wrote the suspicion of hacking bordered on "the irrational" and said it could also ensure that none of the Pennsylvania votes counted.
Diamond added: "Most importantly, there is no credible evidence that any 'hack' occurred, and compelling evidence that Pennsylvania's voting system was not in any way compromised."
He also said the lawsuit had a lack of standing, the lack of federal jurisdiction as well as an "unexplained, highly prejudicial"; wait.
Green Party-backed lawyers argued it was possible computer hackers could have changed the election outcome and Pennsylvania's heavy use of paperless machines, which made it a prime target.
Stein also said in her argument Pennsylvania had tried to put unconstitutional barriers in the way of the recount.
A lawyer for the Green Party said Monday there was disappointment over the decision, and they had not decided if they would appeal against what happened.
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Lawyer, Ilann Maazel said: "But one thing is clear. The Pennsylvania election system is not fair to voters and voters don't know if their votes counted, and that's a very large problem."
Trump beat Clinton in Pennsylvania by around 44,000 votes out of sis million cast in Pennsylvania
The Michigan's recount was halted last week by a federal judge after counting had been ongoing for three days.
The President-elect won Michigan by less than 11,000 votes out of the nearly 4.8 million votes which were cast in the state.
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