Votes recount demand is a scam

US president-elect Donald Trump has termed the Green party-initiated move to recount votes in the state of Wisconsin as a “scam”, asserting that “the people have spoken and the election is over.”

The push to recount the votes was spearheaded by Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein, who is also seeking recounts in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Trump won unexpected and narrow victories against Hillary Clinton in the November 8 presidential elections in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, with Michigan still too close to call.

The billionaire from New York, who continually claimed that the election was “rigged” before his victory, insisted in a statement that the results should be “respected, instead of being challenged and abused”.

The president-elect alleged it was a way for Stein – who has raised USD 5.9 million toward a USD 7 million target for the recount push — to “fill her coffers with money”.

“The people have spoken and the election is over, as Hillary Clinton herself said on election night in addition to her conceding,” Trump said, a day after the Green Party candidate moved a petition for the recounting of votes in Wisconsin which was accepted by the State Election Commission.

Yesterday morning, the Hillary Clinton Campaign said that it is joining the Green Party in the recounting move. It said it will also support the recounting of votes in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Trump said: “This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing.”