[ti:Calls for US Vote Recount Grow, but Trump’s Win Likely Will Stand] [by:www.51voa.com] [00:00.00]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM [00:00.24]Calls for a recount of ballots in the American presidential election [00:05.76]grew louder this week as Hillary Clinton increased her lead in the popular vote. [00:13.60]News media say Clinton, the candidate of the Democratic Party, [00:18.28]lost the election to businessman Donald Trump, the Republican candidate. [00:24.04]They say he will win more electoral votes than the former Secretary of State. [00:31.16]Trump is busy forming a new government. [00:34.92]Political experts say a vote recount is unlikely [00:39.68]to keep him from being sworn-in as president on January 20th, 2017. [00:48.08]Clinton won the popular vote [00:51.24]– winning more than 2 million more votes than Trump, [00:54.48]according to the Cook Political Report. [00:58.40]But in the United States, the candidate who wins the most votes [01:02.80]does not always win the presidency. [01:05.88]If Trump wins, as appears likely, he would be the fifth person [01:11.40]to become president after losing the popular vote. [01:16.08]The 538-member Electoral College decides the presidential election, not the popular vote. [01:24.16]Electoral College members are chosen state-by-state [01:28.12]-- based on which candidates win the most votes [01:31.24]in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. [01:35.28]As of this week, Trump has 306 Electoral College votes, [01:40.12]while Clinton has 232. [01:43.36]Trump's number had been 290 until Michigan election officials announced on Friday [01:49.80]that he won the state by 10,704 votes. [01:54.84]That was the closest presidential election in Michigan's history. [02:01.16]More than 4.7 million people there marked ballots in the November 8 vote. [02:08.08]Last week, Clinton campaign head John Podesta [02:12.84]spoke with lawyers and computer scientists [02:16.08]who urged him to ask for a recount in three states: [02:20.40]Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. [02:24.88]They said it is possible that voting machines could have been attacked to affect the results. [02:31.60]Trump's lead in the three states was 1.2 percent, [02:36.47]according to The New York Times newspaper. [02:39.80]If Clinton, instead of Trump, won those three states, [02:44.52]she would end up with 274 Electoral College votes, enough to win the presidency. [02:51.80]The experts, mentioned in a New York Magazine story, [02:56.96]said their findings show Clinton's support dropped seven points [03:01.21]in areas that used electronic voting machines. [03:05.40]Those machines, the experts said, are more open to hacking. [03:10.36]So far, the Clinton campaign has not reacted to calls for a vote recount. [03:18.16]But another presidential candidate, Jill Stein, [03:21.96]began raising money required to finance recounts [03:26.04]in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. [03:30.52]As of Friday, she had raised $5 million. [03:34.32]That is enough, the Stein campaign said, [03:37.40]to start recounts in all three states. [03:41.20]Stein, the Green Party candidate, [03:43.48]won a little more than one percent of the popular vote. [03:47.28]A statement on her website said the recount is not meant to help Clinton, [03:53.24]whom Stein criticized during the election. [03:56.52]It is "about protecting our democracy," the Stein campaign said. [04:01.76]Still, it is very unlikely her recount efforts [04:06.12]will keep Trump from winning the presidency, [04:09.16]according to Nate Silver, a political expert. [04:12.88]He operates the website FiveThirtyEight. [04:16.56]Silver told VOA it is unlikely unlawful activities affected the election results. [04:23.40]He said the differences between districts using electronic voting machines [04:28.28]in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin [04:31.44]could be explained by race and education levels. [04:35.32]He said they are the two factors that most closely predicted voting [04:39.56]in the 2016 presidential election. [04:43.68]The 538 members of the Electoral College [04:47.12]are set to officially choose the next president on December 19. [04:51.80]Two Democratic members of the Electoral College [04:55.44]called on members to vote their conscience, [04:58.20]even if that means going against the wishes of voters [05:01.56]in the states they represent. [05:03.92]They said that Trump lacks the skills necessary to serve as president. [05:10.32]But so far, there are no signs enough Electoral College members [05:15.20]will change their votes to keep Trump from winning. [05:18.88]Before Election Day, Clinton, who had been expected to win, [05:24.06]promised to accept the election results. [05:27.16]Trump, who had said he thought cheating might affect the results, [05:31.20]refused to make such a promise. [05:33.99]"We are a country based on laws, [05:37.12]and we've had hot, contested elections going back to the very beginning," [05:42.48]Clinton said, before the voting. [05:45.24]"But one of our hallmarks has always been [05:48.04]that we accept the outcomes of our election." [05:52.56]The last person to lose the popular vote but win the presidential election [05:57.68]was Republican George W. Bush in 2000. [06:01.56]He lost to Democrat Al Gore that year by 547,000 votes. [06:08.72]I'm Bruce Alpert. [06:11.60]更多听力请访问51VOA.COM