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The short answer is that nearly every state allocates all of its electoral votes to whoever wins the popular vote in that state. This was the reason Bush v. Gore took so long to decide--Florida had a recount (automatically triggered by how close the popular vote was), things got fucked up Florida-style and had to be worked out before they could cast all of their electoral votes which held the balance of the election. I can't remember who ended up winning that one.
By the way, this fucked up system is the reason Clinton has narrowly won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College massively.
There won't be any recounting, at least not any that will change the outcome.
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Once Clinton made the call to trump to congratulate him she effectively officiall conceded the race. There was some consideration of calling for recounting but once that got beyond needing more than one or two close states then that position becomes untenable.
Once the race has been conceded, it would require some very significant and exceptional circumstances for the losing candidate to be able to launch a legal challenge to the outcome which is what would be needed for Clinton to take the presidency at this point.
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are the counts disputed in these electoral colleges then ?
are they doing recounts or are they still waiting for bubba's ballot to get airboated in from the swamp ?