LANSING, Mich. (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit to stop an election recount in Michigan that is scheduled to begin next week.
The filing Friday comes after the state elections board deadlocked on his request to deny the recount, which means it will likely start Wednesday unless the courts intervene.
Trump lawyers say in the lawsuit that Green Party candidate Jill Stein wants the state to “expend tens of millions of dollars on a wild goose chase that even Stein cannot identify.”
Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton in Michigan by 10,700 votes.
Michigan’s Republican attorney general also is asking state courts to stop the recount.
Stein says her goal is not to change the election result but to ensure “the integrity and accuracy of the vote.”
