Michigan Presidential Ballot Recount Ended by Court Ruling

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  • Federal judge reverses himself after earlier allowing recount
  • State court said Green Party’s Jill Stein isn’t ‘aggrieved’

Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein leaves after speaking at a news conference on Fifth Avenue across the street from Trump Tower on Dec. 5, 2016, in New York City.

Photographer: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

A recount of presidential election ballots in Michigan was effectively halted after a federal judge deferred to a state court finding that losing Green Party candidate Jill Stein wasn’t an "aggrieved person."

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