I think it would be hilarious if they do the recount in MI and find out Trump won by more votes than originally awarded to him. Then MN Supervisor of Elections should call for a recount and find Clinton and Stein actually got less votes. MN should go through all of the registration roles to determine how many citizens and non-citizens were not eligible to vote but voted anyway. They should prosecute anyone regardless of citizenship status, race etc so there can be no challenge that any bias in prosecution exists. The Republicans currently control the MI legislature so the MI recount is unlikely anyway. Apparently Clintonstein missed many of the electoral region's recount request deadlines in MN so any recount there will be incomplete. Any recount changes in favor of Trump would be hilarious but it really is a pipe dream for either side to think these recounts will change anything significantly. They never have, for the most part, in a presidential election.

Not going to get into the debate on undocumented immigrants and voting. There are too many unknowns there.

However, I do have an interesting point involving vote counting in general. If you ask a statistician, he will tell you that recounting a very large sample, either by hand, machine, or computer, will not necessarily give you a more accurate number simply because it has been counted again. In fact, no matter how many times you recount, there is no guarantee that you will ever reach the actual correct number. In all of these technologies (or lack thereof) there is some error. I would say that the least error would be computer/electronic voting, then human counting, then machine counting with punch cards (infamous hanging chads, anyone?) would be the highest error. That error does not diminish with additional counting, unless you utilize a new method with less error, such as switching from machine to human,

Here's a numbers example:

You have to count 1,000,000 votes and determine how many were for A and how many were for B.
The actual results are:
A - 550,000
B - 450,000

If you were counting by machine, for instance, you would have a hypothetical error of, say, 3%. That means up to 30,000 votes could be miscounted (I hope real-life machines have a smaller margin of error than this).

So, I ran a quick simulation with a random error of 3% built in, and here are the results we get:
B.............A
464,038....535,962
436,542....563,458
465,352....534,648
437,618....562,382
447,257....552,743
453,465....546,535
471,293....528,707
467,901....532,099
474,678....525,322
449,572....550,428
430,655....569,345
427,589....572,411
461,438....538,562
433,108....566,892
452,166....547,834
431,716....568,284
450,712....549,288
458,960....541,040
422,802....577,198
452,711....547,289
464,105....535,895
421,560....578,440
467,640....532,360
438,534....561,466

As you can see, continuing to recount does not get us closer and closer to the correct answer, it just fluctuates within the margin of error. Now, if we were to average these results, the more times we recounted, the closer we would get to the actual result:

Recounts: 1
Difference..Average
-6.22%......422,020....B
5.09%.......577,980....A

Recounts: 5
Difference..Average
1.74%........457,833....B
-1.42%.......542,167....A

Recounts: 10
Difference..Average
-0.59%.......447,335....B
0.48%........552,665....A

Recounts: 20
Difference..Average
0.32%.........451,434....B
-0.26%........548,566....A

Recounts: 16,378
Difference..Average
-0.02%........449,910....B
0.02%.........550,090....A


So, in reality, all this hullabaloo over recounts is essentially meaningless unless it is done by a different method that has a demonstrably lower margin of error, or it is done several times and the results are averaged together.

I almost wish a MN recount would actually happen just to establish an actual record of illegal voting to (try to) wake up those that vote blind.

Now I'm actually very thankful for Trump's participation and election. Without Trump as a candidate, acting like a bull in a china shop, only a small portion of what we have learned in the last year would have come out. And Hillary would probably now be planning her continued rape of the common folks. Nothing would change. I think this Trump regime will expose a lot more that needs fixing in this government and help get us back to obeying the rules under our Constitution and Bill of Rights. We need a good reset once in a while and this is a perfect time.

It's obvious the Dems have learned nothing, with the return of Nancy Pelosi as minority leader. She might turn out to be instrumental in bringing her party to it's knees, but only because of a Trump at the top. I pretty much believe in the old adage, "What goes around, comes around". Hopefully it still applies.

There would be thousand reasons that an election could be contested. Actual counting errors are definitely one of them, but I think those are SMALL in this day and age in the USA. But the people who lose an election "could eventually" propose that some citizens didnt read the ballot right and accidentally voted for the wrong person. Or they changed their mind after they got home and would have voted differently. Or they might have voted differently if they had known who won. Maybe they were sick or under the influence of pain killers (or other drugs). The list goes on and on of potential reasons for disputing an election.

If we are going to have a country, elections need to be held on a certain day, the results are final except for real counting errors, and the rules about electoral college votes or popular votes or whatever being the basis for a win cant change AFTER the election. Enough is enough. I thought Sanders should have won the primary against Hildebeast, but he didnt and she was the candidate. Now that Trump has won a pretty convincing majority in the electoral college, we all need to just accept it and help him be a good president for everyone. He promised a number of good things, and he deserves a chance to make them happen. Keep our citizens safe domestically by somehow not letting radical islamic terrorists just walk in and kill us, make decent trade deals that are good for USA, cutting taxes and regulations to expand business opportunities, and draining the swamp (to the extent he can) and cutting corruption. Hillary wouldnt have done any of these things, so I am happy we dont have to endure her.

Lord, please let the insanity end!

Fine idea, but 1) it looks like the Stein recount is doomed and 2) there are deadlines for filing recount paperwork. Not sure what the rules are in MN, but the clock is ticking.
What is actually needed is a national AUDIT of the votes / cleaning of the voter lists. But I would estimate that to take, at a minimum, a year.

Any dirty trick is fine for , the end justifies the means sect. They are like the Minnesota state bird: Mosquitos-- blood sucking worthless irritants that cause more death and misery around the world than anything.

Why should Trump bother? The only one who would really have to bother, would be anyone running for the Senate in Minnesota. Does Minnesota have a Senator in that class of Senators who stood for re-election this year? If so, let that candidate petition for a recount.

Yeah, by golly! Trump shore can!
Take that, evil hag!
Take that, Dr. Freaky Greenie Stein!
Or is that Dr. Steen?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxxSI...

You can't do anything about illegals voting after the fact. Once the ballots are in the box the only thing you can do is to be sure they were counted properly.

Could also recount New Hampshire. Very close in raw vote there.