[ti:Calls for US Vote Recount Grow, but Trump’s Win Likely Will Stand]
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[00:00.24]Calls for a recount of ballots in the American presidential election
[00:05.76]grew louder this week as Hillary Clinton increased her lead in the popular vote.
[00:13.60]News media say Clinton, the candidate of the Democratic Party,
[00:18.28]lost the election to businessman Donald Trump, the Republican candidate.
[00:24.04]They say he will win more electoral votes than the former Secretary of State.
[00:31.16]Trump is busy forming a new government.
[00:34.92]Political experts say a vote recount is unlikely
[00:39.68]to keep him from being sworn-in as president on January 20th, 2017.
[00:48.08]Clinton won the popular vote
[00:51.24]– winning more than 2 million more votes than Trump,
[00:54.48]according to the Cook Political Report.
[00:58.40]But in the United States, the candidate who wins the most votes
[01:02.80]does not always win the presidency.
[01:05.88]If Trump wins, as appears likely, he would be the fifth person
[01:11.40]to become president after losing the popular vote.
[01:16.08]The 538-member Electoral College decides the presidential election, not the popular vote.
[01:24.16]Electoral College members are chosen state-by-state
[01:28.12]-- based on which candidates win the most votes
[01:31.24]in the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
[01:35.28]As of this week, Trump has 306 Electoral College votes,
[01:40.12]while Clinton has 232.
[01:43.36]Trump's number had been 290 until Michigan election officials announced on Friday
[01:49.80]that he won the state by 10,704 votes.
[01:54.84]That was the closest presidential election in Michigan's history.
[02:01.16]More than 4.7 million people there marked ballots in the November 8 vote.
[02:08.08]Last week, Clinton campaign head John Podesta
[02:12.84]spoke with lawyers and computer scientists
[02:16.08]who urged him to ask for a recount in three states:
[02:20.40]Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
[02:24.88]They said it is possible that voting machines could have been attacked to affect the results.
[02:31.60]Trump's lead in the three states was 1.2 percent,
[02:36.47]according to The New York Times newspaper.
[02:39.80]If Clinton, instead of Trump, won those three states,
[02:44.52]she would end up with 274 Electoral College votes, enough to win the presidency.
[02:51.80]The experts, mentioned in a New York Magazine story,
[02:56.96]said their findings show Clinton's support dropped seven points
[03:01.21]in areas that used electronic voting machines.
[03:05.40]Those machines, the experts said, are more open to hacking.
[03:10.36]So far, the Clinton campaign has not reacted to calls for a vote recount.
[03:18.16]But another presidential candidate, Jill Stein,
[03:21.96]began raising money required to finance recounts
[03:26.04]in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
[03:30.52]As of Friday, she had raised $5 million.
[03:34.32]That is enough, the Stein campaign said,
[03:37.40]to start recounts in all three states.
[03:41.20]Stein, the Green Party candidate,
[03:43.48]won a little more than one percent of the popular vote.
[03:47.28]A statement on her website said the recount is not meant to help Clinton,
[03:53.24]whom Stein criticized during the election.
[03:56.52]It is "about protecting our democracy," the Stein campaign said.
[04:01.76]Still, it is very unlikely her recount efforts
[04:06.12]will keep Trump from winning the presidency,
[04:09.16]according to Nate Silver, a political expert.
[04:12.88]He operates the website FiveThirtyEight.
[04:16.56]Silver told VOA it is unlikely unlawful activities affected the election results.
[04:23.40]He said the differences between districts using electronic voting machines
[04:28.28]in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
[04:31.44]could be explained by race and education levels.
[04:35.32]He said they are the two factors that most closely predicted voting
[04:39.56]in the 2016 presidential election.
[04:43.68]The 538 members of the Electoral College
[04:47.12]are set to officially choose the next president on December 19.
[04:51.80]Two Democratic members of the Electoral College
[04:55.44]called on members to vote their conscience,
[04:58.20]even if that means going against the wishes of voters
[05:01.56]in the states they represent.
[05:03.92]They said that Trump lacks the skills necessary to serve as president.
[05:10.32]But so far, there are no signs enough Electoral College members
[05:15.20]will change their votes to keep Trump from winning.
[05:18.88]Before Election Day, Clinton, who had been expected to win,
[05:24.06]promised to accept the election results.
[05:27.16]Trump, who had said he thought cheating might affect the results,
[05:31.20]refused to make such a promise.
[05:33.99]"We are a country based on laws,
[05:37.12]and we've had hot, contested elections going back to the very beginning,"
[05:42.48]Clinton said, before the voting.
[05:45.24]"But one of our hallmarks has always been
[05:48.04]that we accept the outcomes of our election."
[05:52.56]The last person to lose the popular vote but win the presidential election
[05:57.68]was Republican George W. Bush in 2000.
[06:01.56]He lost to Democrat Al Gore that year by 547,000 votes.
[06:08.72]I'm Bruce Alpert.
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