In a strongly worded opinion, a federal judge in Pennsylvania has denied Jill Stein’s motion for a recount of the presidential election ballots cast in the state, saying the unsuccessful Green Party candidate’s suspicion that voting machines may have been hacked “borders on the irrational.”

About three weeks after the Nov. 8 election, Stein brought suits demanding recounts in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin—the three states where Republican President-elect Donald Trump defeated Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton by the narrowest margins.

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