On Nov. 8, 2016, Donald Trump was elected to be President of the United States. He did something that seemed impossible. All the polls and statistics claimed that Hillary Clinton would be the next president, but somehow Trump ended up giving the victory speech. Riots started, especially because Clinton’s lead in the popular vote far exceeded Trump, and every day the lead gets larger. Only one person could make the election more of a mess: Jill Stein.  

Suspicion loomed in the air after Trump somehow won the election with all the polls in Clinton’s favor and with Clinton now leading in the popular vote by over two million votes. Third party candidate Stein has raised over 4.8 million dollars to get the votes recounted.

Stein wants the votes to be recounted for two major reasons. The first reason being Clinton has the biggest lead in the popular vote for a losing candidate in U.S. history, but also in three major swing states, all which used electronic ballots, Clinton underperforms in counties that she was projected to win.

According to the New York Times, in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, Trump only has a combined lead of 103,249 votes over Clinton. Some of the electronic polls used for the election show that Clinton received seven percent fewer votes than other counties that used paper ballots. To put that in perspective, according to the Washington Post Clinton could have been denied around 30,000 votes in Wisconsin alone, where Trump won by 27,000.

The first few days the Clinton campaign did not join Stein’s movement. Instead, they spoke with many scientists researching the odds of there being some sort of interference. After gathering evidence, the Clinton campaign announced that they will back Stein’s movment to recount these major swing states.

Many republicans claim that Clinton is rejecting democracy and not accepting the results of the election. However, the Clinton campaign admits that there is a slim chance these allegations could change the results of the election.

Stein claims that even if Clinton would have won, she would have challenged the results of the election if the same suspicious activities took place.

“Why would Hillary Clinton- who conceded the election to Donald Trump- want #recount2016? You cannot be on-again, off-again about democracy,” said Stein’s twitter account.

The odds of the recount changing the results of the election are slim. However, if there seems to be some sort of discrepancy in the number of real and fake Trump votes, the president elect has some explaining to do.