[JURIST] A lawyer for Hillary Clinton on Saturday announced [blog post] that the Clinton campaign is joining Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s recount in Wisconsin, and the campaign promised it will look into allegations of voter fraud. General counsel Marc Elias [official website], in a post on blog website Medium, responded to the “hundreds of messages, emails, and calls urging us to do something, anything, to investigate claims that the election results were hacked and altered in a way to disadvantage Secretary Clinton,” particularly in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, noting that “[no] actionable evidence of hacking or outside attempts to alter the voting technology” had been found. While the Clinton campaign stated that “we believe we have an obligation to the more than 64 million Americans who cast ballots for Hillary Clinton to participate in ongoing proceedings to ensure that an accurate vote count will be reported,” President-elect Donald Trump urged that “[t]he results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what Jill Stein is doing.”

Voting rights and issues have remained a constant topic in US courts. Earlier this month, a federal judge in Wisconsin ruled [JURIST report] that Republican redistricting in the state was unconstitutional gerrymandering. Advocacy groups in September filed a lawsuit challenging the redrawn boundaries [JURIST report] for North Carolina’s congressional seats. Also in September several organizations filed a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s voter registration system [JURIST report]. In April the Supreme Court unanimously upheld [JURIST report] an Arizona commission’s decisions regarding the redistricting of voting districts in the state.