This article is misleading about the fundraiser being misleading. The page always stated that the initial goal was only to cover the filing fees, and the total cost for all three recounts would likely be $6-7 million. Which means, at this point, they don’t even have any “excess money” to be concerned about.

Why 1.3 million? The difference between Clinton’s total and Trump’s, at the most recent count, was only about 22,000 votes. You could flip the state by making mistakes with less than 1% of the ballots.