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President-elect Donald Trump reacts after speaking at Carrier Corp Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, in Indianapolis. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings)

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Attorneys for President-elect Donald Trump have filed suit against the Board of State Canvassers and Michigan Elections Director Chris Thomas in the latest attempt to prevent a presidential ballot recount from occurring.

The suit, filed Friday evening with the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Michigan Supreme Court, requests leave to appeal the Board of Canvassers' ruling allowing the recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein to proceed.

Trump's attorneys ask to bypass the Court of Appeals and go straight to the Supreme Court in the lawsuit, and requests the court put a stop to the recount.

In the lawsuit, Trump's attorneys allege the Board of State Canvassers preemptively authorized Thomas to move forward with preparations for a recount before a petition was filed, and argue the board should have rejected Stein's recount petition because she did not show herself sufficiently aggrieved.

"If the Bureau of Elections moves forward with the recount, it will waste the State's scarce resources, create a logistical nightmare for counties across the State, and assure that Michigan's Electoral College voters will not be counted," the suit read.

The lawsuit from Trump's team is the latest legal challenge to the statewide ballot recount, which was given the go-ahead to proceed when the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked on the objection filed by Trump.

Attorney General Bill Schuette filed a similar challenge in the courts Friday morning prior to the Board of State Canvassers meeting.

Pending court action, the recount is now set to begin early next week.

Trump won Michigan in the Nov. 8 election, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton by 10,704 votes. Stein earned 1.07 percent of the vote in the state.