Donations to Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign are now being partially redirected towards a vote recount effort.
When users go to donate to her campaign on ActBlue, the nonprofit fundraising platform, the fine-print suggests that the vice president’s campaign might be launching a recount effort.
It reads: “The first $41,300/$15,000 from a person/multicandidate committee (“PAC”) will be allocated to the DNC. The next $3,300/$5,000 from a person/PAC will be allocated to Harris for President’s Recount Account.”
There is little other information about what the recount account is and what it plans to do. Donald Trump won the election with 312 Electoral College votes, including all seven battleground states.
Some of these states were won by narrow margins. In the closest race, in Wisconsin, Trump won by around 30,000 votes.
Harris conceded the election on Wednesday and said: “We must accept the results of this election.”
Newsweek reached out to ActBlue and the Harris campaign for comment via email outside of regular working hours.
It seems unlikely that Harris’ campaign would call for a recount, given that she has already conceded the election and that multiple states would need to flip to change the results of the election.
Some states have laws that enact an automatic recount if the margin between two candidates is close enough, such as if it is by 0.5 percent of the overall vote.
If the margin doesn’t fall within the threshold for an automatic recount, candidates can still request one if the results meet specific margin requirements. Each state has its own rules for initiating a recount, and requests must typically be made within a certain number of days after the election.
