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| Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn |
In a decision that deflated what lingering hope I had left in me, Dane County Circuit Judge Valerie Bailey-Rihn rejected Jill Stein's lawsuit that would have required all Wisconsin counties to do the 2016 recount by hand.
Despite testimony from several renowned experts, such as University of California at Berkeley's Philip Stark (his statistical analyses found unusual patterns in the digits of vote totals in Wisconsin) and University of Michigan computer scientist J. Alex Halderman (he swore under oath that, "I am strongly of the opinion that a hand recount is going to provide a more accurate result,") the motion was denied.
It is unclear whether or not Stein will appeal to a higher court, but the clock is about to expire on the effectiveness and viability of doing so.
