President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to officially object
 Thursday to Green Party candidate Jill Stein’s request for a
laborious hand-recount of the state’s nearly 4.8 million ballots.
 Trump was declared the winner of the state’s 16 electoral votes
 by a margin of 10,704 votes on Monday.
Fred Woodhams, a spokesman for the Michigan Secretary of State
Office, said the objection would be filed by the end of day Thursday.
Stein filed her recount request Wednesday, along with a check
for $973,250 to cover the costs to recount ballots in Michigan’s
 6,300 precincts.
Secretary of State Ruth Johnson said Wednesday the recount
 will cost more than $5 million, most of it to be borne by
Michigan taxpayers. The state Republican party went further,
 suggesting costs could soar to $12 million.
The recount was expected to begin Friday, but Trump’s request 
could delay it, perhaps until Tuesday, The Detroit News reported.
Trump has been critical of the recount request, calling it
 “ridiculous” and “a scam.”

“This recount is just a way for Jill Stein, who received less than 
1 percent of the vote overall and wasn't even on the ballot in
 many states, to fill her coffers with money, most of which
 she will never even spend on this ridiculous recount," the
 president-elect said in a statement.
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Michigan
Republican Party, has called the request by Stein a “temper
 tantrum” that won't change the outcome of the vote. Stein
 and her attorneys have acknowledged there is no evidence
of fraud or impropriety, but raised questions about 85,000
 ballots with “blank votes” in the presidential race — more
 than enough to make up for the difference separating
 Trump and Clinton.