Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Announces Her Presidential Run

Jill Stein at the National Press Club, June 23, 2015 in Washington, DC.

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Two days after Jill Stein, the Green Party nominee for President of the United States, started a drive to raise $2.5 million to audit election results in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has announced that it "is preparing to move forward with a statewide recount of votes for President of the United States," according to a release posted Friday by the commission.

NBC News reported that "Stein's filing came about an hour and a half before the afternoon deadline."

The commission said they also received a petition from Rocky Roque De La Fuente.

"We have assembled an internal team to direct the recount; we have been in close consultation with our county clerk partners, and have arranged for legal representation by the Wisconsin Department of Justice," Administrator Michael Haas is quoted as saying in the release. "We plan to hold a teleconference meeting for county clerks next week and anticipate the recount will begin late in the week after the Stein campaign has paid the recount fee, which we are still calculating."

Though the final amount owed in Wisconsin is not yet known, Stein's campaign has raised over $5.3 million so far.

The Michigan and Pennsylvania recount deadlines are next week and Stein hopes to raise a total of $7 million to fund all three recounts.

-- Lizzy Acker

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