How we spend money in one area has zero to do with whether we are wasting it in another area.
And spending 6 million dollars on a recount that won't overturn the election is, without question, a waste.
It amazes me how people (you apparently included) never dig below the surface on stories like these. Her premise is essentially that the Russians stepped in and hacked the election. OK. Let's ask one basic question - like whether that is even fucking possible. So this morning I did a tiny bit of digging. It took all of ten minutes. As noted by a University of Wisconsin professor (hardly a bastion of conservatism is Madison) to the Milwaukee paper, Wisconsin voting machines are not connected to any communications network. That makes "hacking" the machines by the Russians very unlikely less you believe the KGB have unfettered physical access to the machines. Again, unless the KGB has agents on the ground across dozens of counties in Wisconsin and dozens and dozens of voting locations, they couldn't "hack" the machines.
Here's the exact quote from the article - UW-Madison's Burden said hacking Wisconsin's voting machines would be extremely difficult because they are not connected to the internet. "They would have to go machine by machine around the state," he said of those who would try to manipulate the results. And here is the article.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/news/.../25/recount-would-have-move-quickly/94417686/
We need not go any further. Trump has 306 electoral votes. Even if I were to hand over PA and MI to him on the grounds the Russians could have hacked those states (for which even Stein admits we have no current evidence) he'd still have 270 by holding onto WI where the facts on the ground completely disprove her speculative narrative is even possible.
So what is it, exactly, the recount is really trying to confirm? Nothing. What is the real aim? To throw the electoral college into a frenzy. Even the White House is making statements about how this is stupid. It's stupid and it's a waste of time and money.