[EL] Green party call for recounts

[Mark Scarberry]

Jill Stein and her Green party seem to be raising money to fund recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania because of the suggestion that voting machines were hacked. See http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/jill-stein-recount-three-states-election-hacks-231814. 
Is a candidate who loses by a very large margin (based on the initial count) ordinarily entitled to a recount if the candidate is willing to pay for it? Does the candidate need to claim that a recount might result in the candidate winning, or at least that the candidate is seeking the recount in an attempt to win? Does any voter ordinarily have the right to demand a recount, if the voter is willing to pay for it?
Does anyone think Halderman's suggestion that the machines were hacked so as to swing the election has any merit?
Mark Scarberry Pepperdine University School of Law 

	
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