The US state of Wisconsin has ended a recount of presidential election votes, certifying President-elect Donald Trump as the winner.
Trump’s victory in Wisconsin was reaffirmed after a statewide vote recount was completed on Monday evening, showing Trump defeating Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes.
In Pennsylvania, a federal judge rejected a Green Party-backed request on Monday to recount ballots in the state’s presidential election.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein succeeded in having the Wisconsin vote recount, but judges in Pennsylvania and Michigan blocked her attempts for similar statewide recounts.
Stein received only about 1 percent of the vote in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan — the traditionally blue states that the president-elect won with a razor-thin margin.
The Stein campaign had argued that voting machines in all three states were susceptible to hacking.
But she was proven wrong at least in Wisconsin where the numbers barely budged after about three million votes were recounted.
Trump picked up a net 162 votes as a result of the recount and still won the state by more than 22,000 votes, the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified on Monday.
US media have published reports that Russia intervened in the November 8 election to help Trump win the White House. Trump has turned down the report as "ridiculous".
On Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concluded that Russia had moved deliberately to help elect Trump as president.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, ordered a full review of alleged hacking by Russians into the 2016 US election even before The Washington Post published a report on the CIA findings.
In an interview on Sunday with Fox News, Trump said Democrats were behind news reports on intelligence assessments that Russian hackers had intervened to help Trump defeat his Democratic rival in the election.
Trump challenged whether the CIA was behind the reports that indicated Moscow had sought to boost his prospects in the election.
"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said. "I think the Democrats are putting it out."
Trump’s victory in Wisconsin was reaffirmed after a statewide vote recount was completed on Monday evening, showing Trump defeating Hillary Clinton by more than 22,000 votes.
In Pennsylvania, a federal judge rejected a Green Party-backed request on Monday to recount ballots in the state’s presidential election.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein succeeded in having the Wisconsin vote recount, but judges in Pennsylvania and Michigan blocked her attempts for similar statewide recounts.
Stein received only about 1 percent of the vote in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan — the traditionally blue states that the president-elect won with a razor-thin margin.
The Stein campaign had argued that voting machines in all three states were susceptible to hacking.
But she was proven wrong at least in Wisconsin where the numbers barely budged after about three million votes were recounted.
Trump picked up a net 162 votes as a result of the recount and still won the state by more than 22,000 votes, the Wisconsin Elections Commission certified on Monday.
US media have published reports that Russia intervened in the November 8 election to help Trump win the White House. Trump has turned down the report as "ridiculous".
On Friday, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) concluded that Russia had moved deliberately to help elect Trump as president.
President Barack Obama, a Democrat, ordered a full review of alleged hacking by Russians into the 2016 US election even before The Washington Post published a report on the CIA findings.
In an interview on Sunday with Fox News, Trump said Democrats were behind news reports on intelligence assessments that Russian hackers had intervened to help Trump defeat his Democratic rival in the election.
Trump challenged whether the CIA was behind the reports that indicated Moscow had sought to boost his prospects in the election.
"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's just another excuse. I don't believe it," Trump said. "I think the Democrats are putting it out."
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