Jill Stein, who is leading the Green Party on the US election results recount in Pennsylvania state, has taken another measure of taking the exercise to the state's high court.
The Green Party has said, just hours after dropping an appeal in a Pennsylvania state court, that it will go to high court.
The party had earlier said voters could not afford the $1m (£785,000) bond ordered by the state court.
Ms Jill Stein
Ms Stein has tried to force recounts in Michigan and Wisconsin as well; all three were narrowly won by President-elect Donald Trump.The Greens' decision comes two days before a court hearing was scheduled on the case in Pennsylvania where Donald Trump's margin of victory was 49,000, or less than 1%.
But supporters of Mr Trump are trying to block the recount bid, which are unlikely to change the polls results if they take place.
"Make no mistake, the Stein campaign will continue to fight for a state-wide recount in Pennsylvania," recount campaign lawyer Jonathan Abady said in a statement. "We are committed to this fight to protect the civil and voting rights of all Americans."
Mr Abady said barriers to a recount in Pennsylvania are pervasive and the state court system is ill-equipped to address the problem.
Ms Stein, who was the Green Party's presidential candidate, says the recount bid is needed to explore whether voting machines and systems had been hacked and the election result manipulated.
But her campaign has so far offered no evidence of hacking, and supporters of Donald Trump have asked the state court to dismiss the case.
Source: BBC-News..........
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