Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash. The lawsuit from Trump’s legal team asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Milwaukee and Dane County. It aims to garner Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for President Trump, in a state president-elect Joe Biden won by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, […]
Dane, Milwaukee recounts draw to a close
The ten-day vote recount effort, which involved hundreds of processors and cost the Trump campaign an estimated $740,000, shifted the results of Dane County’s election by 58 net votes, up from 45 reported yesterday. According to Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, approximately 150 ballots were dismissed due to issues with voter or witness signatures. He […]
Trump campaign challenges Dane County ballots
Dane County election workers entered day five of the 2020 election recount process today. According to Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, processors have reviewed more than 125,000 out of 345,600 total ballots. The Trump campaign has already lodged a number of complaints against thousands of ballots in Dane County. To unpack these actions and explain […]
Dane, Milwaukee County vote recounts enter day four
Inside the Monona Terrace in downtown Madison, election officials set a steady pace processing and recounting ballots. Since Friday, processors have been working their way through Dane County’s more than 345,000 ballots. As of this morning, they had parsed through about 83,000 — placing the recount a little less than a quarter of the way […]
Trump Campaign Files for Recount in Dane and Milwaukee Counties
After sending $3 million by a wire transfer last night and dropping off a petition this morning to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the Trump Campaign today has officially completed a request for a partial recount, managing to do so in a tight time window. The recount petition is only for Dane and Milwaukee counties, the […]
Without Evidence, Wisconsin GOP Claim Voter Fraud and Deny Election Re...
On Tuesday morning, the New York Times headline: Election officials nationwide find no fraud. The Times contacted top election officials of both parties in every state and found none reported any major voting issues. But the Wisconsin GOP continues to back President Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud in and outside of Wisconsin in a […]
