Now that Wisconsin will certify their slate of electors, we have confirmation of the 306-232 Electoral College pledge lead for Donald Trump. A handful of faithless electors might change that count slightly when the ballots are counted on January 6th, but the outcome isn’t in doubt.
Update: Wisconsin still hasn’t published its final data, but the Associated Press reports that the state has certified Trump the winner after the recount, “showing few changes in vote totals.”
Update: According to The Hill, Trump actually added 162 votes to his Election Night lead of 22,617. Heckuva job, Steinie!
Update; Here’s the updated AP link and excerpt:
Stein only got about 1 percent of the vote in each of the states that Trump narrowly won on his way to the White House. She argued, without evidence, that voting machines in all three states were susceptible to hacking.
The numbers barely budged in Wisconsin after nearly 3 million votes were recounted. Trump picked up a net 162 votes and still won by more than 22,000 votes. The final results changed just 0.06 percent.
As I’ve noted repeatedly, these changes are minuscule and far below the scale needed to overcome the margins of victory. In this case, they went in the wrong direction anyway.
Update: The state of Wisconsin has released the final worksheet from the recount tallies. The final numbers are:
Total votes: 2,941,034 (+1,741 from Election Night, 0.0592% change rate)
Final Trump lead: 22,779 (+162 from Election Night)
Trump added votes in recount: 874
Clinton added votes in recount: 712
Stein added votes in recount: 66
Johnson added votes in recount: 74
It’s a darned good thing that Jill Stein paid millions of dollars to conduct this recount, eh? |
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