Expert: Success chances of presidential recount “unlikely”

in the race to the white house — recounts are now underway. leading this crusade — is 20-16 green party presidential candidate doctor jill stein. but as 47 a-b-c’s lili zheng reports– one local expert explains it will take more than momentum among supporters. track 1 michigan — now moving ahead with the presidential recount. the effort is driven by green party candidate dr. jill stein — who has also requested recounts for pennsylvania and wisconsin. ny: jill stein presser/ intention to verify vote 0:00 “i think the outcome will be very different in the minds of americans.the outcome will be that we have an election system that we can trust.that is our first and foremost intention here” 0:11 track 2 why those three states? according to dr. sam hoff huff — a professor of political science and history at delaware state university — they add up to 46 electoral votes. president-elect donald trump gained 306 electoral votes in november — as opposed to 232 for democratic candidate hillary clinton. take those three states away — and he would not have reached the 270 electoral votes needed to be elected president. while dr. hoff explains it’s unlikely this recount effort will be successful — it’s not unheard of. 11:21:03 in a national level, we can certainly point to the 2008 minnesota senate race for which al franken eventually won and obviously is the sitting senator now 14 track 3 trump has taken to twitter — calling the effort a scam. but what he calls a scam — dr. hoff huff calls slight hypocrisy. 11:23:16 i do think there is a little hypocrisy relative to at least the complaints we heard from supporters of hillary clinton, if not hillary herself about what she thought of if the roles were reversed and donald trump had lost 33 track 4 also adding — while it is possible for all three states to have recounts that could change the election results — it’s highly unlikely. lili zheng, 47 a-b-c according to reports — stein raised seven million dollars for the recounts. the ultimate deadline for recounts — on the federal level — is december thirteenth. pending senate approval – it appears doctor ben carson will