Clinton campaign to participate in vote recount in Wisconsin

Hillary Clinton departs with her husband, former US President Bill Clinton, after addressing her staff and supporters about the results of the US election at a hotel in the Manhattan borough of New York, US, November 9, 2016. [Photo/Agencies]

WASHINGTON -- The campaign of US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will participate in the vote recount in Wisconsin, her campaign attorney said Saturday.

"We feel it is important, on principle, to ensure our campaign is legally represented in any court proceedings and represented on the ground in order to monitor the recount process itself," Clinton's campaign attorney Mark Elias wrote on a online statement.

The statement said that since the election the campaign has received "hundreds of messages" that urged for action against the result, and that the campaign has previously conducted various measures to evaluate the fairness of the vote count but has found no "actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology."

In light of the findings, Clinton's campaign initially decided against filing for recount, but now that a recount has been initiated in Wisconsin, it will join in, the statement said.

The Wisconsin recount was filed on Friday by Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who said in an online video that she will also push for recounts in the states of Michigan and Pennsylvania, which Elias said the Clinton campaign will also participate.

The three states where Stein has asked for recount were the most closely contested states during the presidential election, with Republican candidate Donald Trump's combined lead in all three states just topping 100,000 votes, according to figures released by state authorities.