LANSING (WKZO-AM) -- Attorney General Bill Schuette has filed a lawsuit to stop a request to recount Michigan's 4.8 million presidential ballots.
"Michigan voters rejected (Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein's) candidacy by massive margins but her refusal to accept that state-verified result poses an expensive and risky threat to hard-working taxpayers and abuses the intent of Michigan law," Schuette said in a press release. "We have asked the court to end the recount which Stein is pursuing in violation of Michigan laws that protect the integrity of our elections. It is inexcusable for Stein to put Michigan voters at risk of paying millions and potentially losing their voice in the Electoral College in the process."
Canvassers are meeting in Lansing today to discuss a similar demand made on behalf of president-elect Donald Trump.
Stein made the request for the recount.
Stein's attorneys sent the state a $973,250 check earlier this week. She was required to pay $125 per precinct. Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has estimated the actual cost of the recount could eclipse $2 million.
Before Trump's intervention, the recount was slated to begin Friday.
