Symbolic or long-shot requests for recounts of elections — like the one that roiled Michigan's presidential election results in 2016 — would get more expensive for candidates under a bill that has only one more step for final passage.

The House Elections and Ethics Committee voted unanimously Thursday to double the cost of recount requests for candidates who have little to no shot of winning a recount of the election results.

Current law requires a $25 per precinct deposit with the county clerk or state Bureau of Elections for a recount or $125 per precinct if the candidate lost by more than 75 votes or 0.5% of the total votes cast. The bill passed by the committee doubles the recount cost to $250 per precinct for the latter.

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein asked for a recount after the 2016 election, even though she got only 51,463 votes, or 1.07% of the nearly 4.8 million votes cast for president.

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She paid $973,250 for the recount for the entire state and was refunded $632,625 because only 2,725 precincts in 26 counties were counted before the recount was halted by a federal judge.

Stein's recount request questioned Michigan’s aging voting system and the 75,000 ballots in Michigan in which voters picked no one for president. In Michigan, Republican Donald Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes.

The bill – SB 290 – now moves to the full House of Representatives for a vote on final passage.