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Schedule released for Michigan presidential election recount

Posted at 11:52 AM, Dec 05, 2016
and last updated 2016-12-05 17:25:18-05

The Michigan Secretary of State's Office has released a schedule for the presidential election recount.

Only two counties in the state will begin the recount on Monday after a federal judge ordered the recounts to begin on Monday.

Oakland County and Ingham County will begin the recount at 12 p.m. Macomb, Washtenaw, Wayne, Kalamazoo and Kent counties will begin the recount at 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Other counties will get going with the recounts later in the week, but that could change.

Judge Mark Goldsmith issued his ruling late Sunday night that rejected an effort by state officials to wait two business days to get started hand-counting about 4.8 million ballots.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein requested a recount, but Republican President-elect Donald Trump sued elections officials to stop it.

Stein's lawyers argued that waiting until Wednesday to start a recount would cut too close to the Dec. 13 deadline to have it finished.

MI Recount Schedule by WXYZ-TV Channel 7 Detroit on Scribd