2016 House Bill 6097

Make Green Party pay entire cost of 2016 presidential recount

Introduced in the House

Dec. 1, 2016

Introduced by Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons (R-86)

To make a presidential candidate who requests a state recount to pay 100 percent of the cost if the result show the person still would have lost by 5 percent or more. The bill’s effect would be retroactive, which (if upheld by courts) would make 2016 Green Party candidate responsible for a recount she orchestrated along with Democratic Party operatives following the Nov. 8, 2016 general election won by Donald Trump in Michigan.

Referred to the Committee on Elections

Dec. 6, 2016

Reported without amendment

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.