Press release via email:

Every dollar spent from the $7.3 million raised has been used to pay for costs associated with the recounts, which currently total $7,435,471. Current estimates of the cost breakdown is as follows:

SPENDING CATEGORY                                                                   COST                     PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL

 

State filing fees:                                                                               $4,488,939                           60%

                                Wisconsin:          $3,499,689

                                Michigan:            $973,250

                                Pennsylvania:    $16,000*

Legal expenses for recount:                                                        $1,630,200                           22%

Legal expenses for ongoing litigation:                                     $150,000                              2%

Payments to recount observers & volunteer costs:          $86,214                 1%

Staff payroll:                                                                                      $212,500                              3%

Consultants:                                                                                       $364,000                              5%

(E.g. election experts, communications support)

Administrative expenses:                                                            $353,618                              5%

(E.g. office and travel costs and donation processing fees)

Compliance costs:                                                                            $150,000                              2%

 

*Note: the Stein campaign’s initial fundraising target for PA was $500,000, which covered requisite filing fees and associated notary costs. The actual number, however, was lowered due to Pennsylvania’s bottom-up process, which required 27,000 voters in 9,000-plus precincts to submit official, notarized petitions to county boards, in time for shifting, divergent and secret deadlines known, in order to start a statewide recount.