Jill Stein

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein speaks to a crowd at Burt's Theatre in Detroit's Eastern Market Saturday, Sept. 2, 2016. (Tanya Moutzalias | MLive Detroit)

(Tanya Moutzalias)

Green Party candidate Jill Stein has filed suit in federal court in an effort to get the presidential recount she requested underway sooner.

In a lawsuit filed late Friday in Detroit's U.S. District Court, Stein's attorney, Mark Brewer, asked for a court order to start the presidential recount immediately instead of next week. The Board of State Canvassers and Michigan Elections Director Chris Thomas are named in the suit.

It's the latest in a series of legal challenges facing the presidential recount, which is moving forward for now after the Board of State Canvassers deadlocked Friday in a 2-2 vote on whether to accept an objection filed by President-elect Donald Trump's legal team.

Currently, a hand recount of the millions of ballots cast in Michigan is slated to begin either late Tuesday or early Wednesday, two business days after the Board of State Canvassers' vote, Thomas said Friday.

Citing the federal "safe harbor" deadline of Dec. 13 -- six days before the Electoral College meets -- Stein's filing claimed further delay in the recount is "effectively denying the right to vote."

The suit also rehashed several claims made by Stein's team in recent days that Michigan's voting machines are vulnerable to error or hacking.

"The refusal of Michigan's election apparatus to proceed with the recount now, when it can still make a difference, blocks a meaningful and impactful audit of an electronic vote tabulating system that, according to every leading expert, is frighteningly vulnerable to hacking," the filing reads.

The federal filing comes after both Attorney General Bill Schuette and Trump filed separate motions in state court to prevent the recount from happening.

Trump won in Michigan's presidential election over Democrat Hillary Clinton by a margin of 10,704 votes. Stein came in fourth place in Michigan, earning 1.07 percent of the total vote.