A lawsuit was filed by a group of voters in Florida on Monday demanding a statewide hand recount of the ballots.
In the lawsuit, the voters stressed on a “deluge” of voting problems, including alleged hackings on electronic voting machines and polling places illegally turning away people from voting.
It may be recalled that Trump registered victory in Florida with 4.6 million votes statewide, securing 112,000 votes more than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The defendants listed in the lawsuit are Trump, Gov. Rick Scott and the 29 Republican presidential electors of the state.
Experts maintain that Trump and other defendants named in the lawsuit have all the options to ignore the lawsuit. They can also decide not to respond before the national deadline to settle disputes over election results. In that most likely case, the Electoral College will hold a vote on Dec. 19 and Trump will take charge as the president on Jan. 20.
The plaintiffs, however, claim that Clinton won in Florida. They have urged the officials to probe the election results and find out whether the result which went in Trump’s favor was, in fact, due to a variety of statewide issues.
It is to be noted that recount efforts launched by former Green Party candidate Jill Stein are still on in Michigan. Stein also demanded in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
“Our effort to recount votes in those states is not intended to help Hillary Clinton,” Stein wrote on her fundraising site for the recount, which received nearly $7.2 million by Tuesday. “These recounts are part of an election integrity movement to attempt to shine a light on just how untrustworthy the U.S. election system is.”