Presidential candidate Jill Stein's fight to force ballot recounts in three states focuses Monday on Pennsylvania, where her Green Party is seeking an emergency federal court order for a statewide recount, and Michigan, where a federal judge has ordered a hand recount to begin by noon. The judge rejected a request to halt the recount while the lawsuit is pending and scheduled a hearing for Friday. ———MICHIGANA federal judge late Sunday night in Detroit ordered a statewide hand recount of roughly 4.8 million ballots to start by noon Monday. That is still shy of Pennsylvania's 0.5 percent trigger for an automatic statewide recount. ———Associated Press writers David Eggert in Lansing, Michigan; Marc Levy in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this report.

Source: ABC News December 05, 2016 07:45 UTC