YORK, Pa. -- Several requests to recount the York County results of the presidential election in ten precincts are denied.
The York County Board of Elections met Wednesday morning to discuss the merits of the case.
More than a dozen voters filed petitions on the belief that electronic voting machines used during the election could have been hacked, and that errors were made while counting returns.
York County solicitor Glenn Smith said "whether or not our voting machines could be hacked, well they're not connected to the internet. There's this understanding that they are, and that somebody could easily do that, but the system, at least what we use in Pennsylvania, they don't have that capability."
The doubts raised by the petitioners were brought before the York County Board of Elections.
"What they were asking for is a recount or recanvassing the vote. We had to address these by December 13th, by federal law, Pennsylvania had to finalize its certification, so the election board met today for purposes of addressing those petitions," Smith said.
The request for a recount is one of several made by the Green Party in Pennsylvania.
"Fifteen of them were all a form, that from my understanding, were sent out by Jill Stein's campaign, the Green Party, essentially asking for individuals to submit these forms," Smith said.
The law requires a minimum of three petitions per precinct, and while three districts met that requirement, the York County request is denied.
"There was never an allegation that something did in fact happen, just that there was the opportunity or the possibility that it could happen. And primarily that's the reason why the petitions were denied today by the Board of Elections, because they failed to state that an error did in fact occur," Smith said.
Ultimately, the law states the board needed proof of any wrong doing and not beliefs that errors were made during the election.