LANSING, MI -- The attorney leading Jill Stein's recount efforts in Michigan didn't waffle on Friday when asked if the platitude that every vote counted were true in Michigan.

Mark Brewer, an attorney representing Jill Stein in her quest to have Michigan's ballots recounted, speaks with reporters on Dec. 9, 2016.

"No. No it's not. Every vote is not being counted because again we've seen shifts here and votes being counted for the first time, because they were not on election night," said Mark Brewer, the former chair of the Michigan Democratic Party who is working for Jill Stein on Michigan's recount.

A federal judge on Wednesday vacated his order that had allowed the recount to proceed, effectively putting an end to the statewide presidential recount. It had already been concluded in Ingham County and Kalamazoo County.

At the state level the state Court of Appeals ruled state officials should reject Stein's recount because she was not an "aggrieved" candidate.

Brewer has asked the Supreme Court to hear the case, which the court has not yet issued a decision on. Brewer said the court was aware of the urgency of the situation, and the goal is to have the recount continue.

"I think the recount has uncovered problems on a statewide basis. And that's one of the important reasons that it should continue," Brewer said.

Stu Sandler, a Republican who observed some of the recount procedures, said by the Michigan Republican Party's tally as of Wednesday night, Clinton had gained a net 66 votes.

"The couple days it was going showed that there was nothing to see," Sandler said, noting that margins of error happen in all elections.

But Brewer said some problems Stein observers had seen included included issues with the optical scanners and ballot storage.

"We saw a lot of ballot storage issues. Ballot bags with holes ... Ballots stored in unsecured closets around the state, ballots put in unlocked boxes," Brewer said.

All of those, he said, were against Michigan law.

From their observations of the partial recount, Jill Stein observers believe around one-fifth of the precincts were unable to be recounted due to some of these problems.

Brewer said Stein's team agrees that any recount would need to be completed by Dec. 13, a deadline six days before the electoral college is set to meet. He said given the issues the partial recount had uncovered, it may be valuable to complete the recount even past that deadline.

Stein's legal effort won a small victory on Thursday morning when Republican-nominated Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Young Jr. and Justice Joan Larsen agreed to recuse themselves from the case due to being on a list of potential Supreme Court nominees for president-elect Donald Trump, who won Michigan's election.

With those justices absent, the panel that may consider Stein's appeal would consist of three Republican-nominated justices and two Democratic-nominated justices.

The Supreme Court has not indicated when it might make a decision on whether to take up Stein's appeal.