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FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2016 file photo, Green party presidential candidate Jill Stein meets her supporters during a campaign stop at Humanist Hall in Oakland, Calif.

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A court case seeking to challenge Donald Trump's victory in Pennsylvania through a statewide recount is over, according to the attorney who filed the case last week.

The grassroots effort could not afford the $1 million bond that was required by the court, said Larry Otter, the Bucks County attorney who filed the case on behalf of Jill Stein, who ran as the Green Party candidate for President of the United States.

The bond "gave us one million reasons to reconsider our decision," Otter told PennLive Saturday night. "I was told to pull the plug."

A hearing scheduled for Monday has been cancelled, Otter confirmed.

The filing was unprecedented, Otter acknowledged, and several rulings handed down by the court late Friday erected hurdles too high for the campaign to overcome.

"It was something that had never been tried before," Otter said. "You take your chances."

The campaign had sought a $25,000 bond for the case, and other side pushed back with a request for $10 million. The judge settled on a $1 million bond, which was out of reach for the petitioners, who are "regular citizens of ordinary means," Otter wrote in his court filing to withdraw the case.

The death of the case, however, doesn't spell the end of all efforts in the state to question the final Presidential election results. There are still precinct-level recounts being sought in various counties.

Stein's campaign lamented the judge's bond ruling as "shameful," and promised a "major announcement" about the recount on Monday, according to a news release issued Saturday night. Her campaign is still pursuing statewide recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin.

"Pennsylvania has by far the messiest recount process of the three states, and one of the worst state election laws in the nation," according to Stein's news release. "Donald Trump has tried to use its antiquated laws and decentralized and bureaucratic election system to his advantage to block the recount."

Republicans in Pennsylvania issued their own news release Saturday night after news broke about the withdrawal of the case. They had previously said the case was without any merit.

"Ms. Stein and her supporters should now withdraw the few scattered recounts that they filed in Pennsylvania as they clearly have no chance of changing the results and that it was done for media attention," the state GOP release said. "The November 8, 2016 election produced a clear winner, Donald Trump, and the actions of Ms. Stein and her supporters to create the fear of chaos by making baseless accusations of the hacking of voting machines in Pennsylvania were an insult to all Pennsylvania voters."

One of the chief factors cited Otter's original petition included problems with the state's electronic voting system that a computer scientist said could make it vulnerable to hackers. Others include the computer hacking of the Democratic National Committee and "discontinuity" between pre-election public opinion polls and the final result.

The state's top elections official, Secretary of State Pedro Cortes, a Democrat, previously said that there was no evidence of any sort of cyberattacks or irregularities in Pennsylvania's election.

Republican President-elect Donald Trump won in Pennsylvania by about 71,000 ballots, or about 1 percentage point, over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Because he won the state's popular vote, he walked away with the state's 20 electoral votes. That lead has since narrowed to 49,543 votes, according to the state Secretary of State website.

No Republican had won Pennsylvania since George H.W. Bush in 1988, and no Democrat has won the White House without winning Pennsylvania since Harry Truman in 1948, according to the Associated Press.

Green Party candidate Jill Stein drew fewer than 50,000 votes, according to the Associated Press, but nevertheless is leading the recount charge.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was updated with the latest election figures and information from news releases from Stein and the state GOP.

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