By Zachary Stieber The Wisconsin Assembly on Tuesday approved a resolution authorizing an investigation into the 2020 election. In a party-line 58–35 vote, the lower chamber passed Assembly Resolution 15, which says in part that “the integrity of our electoral process has been jeopardized by election officials who, either through willful disregard or reckless neglect, have failed to adhere […]
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Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Set Aside Wisconsin’s Election
By Isabel Van Brugen The Trump campaign announced Tuesday that it was asking the Supreme Court to set aside Wisconsin’s presidential election, and to allow the Republican-controlled legislature to choose how to cast its 10 electoral votes. The campaign asks in its filing (pdf) that the Supreme Court declare the state election “failed.” It also asks […]
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Sidney Powell: Supreme Court Appeared to Reject Wisconsin, Arizona Cases; Docketed Georgia, Michigan Lawsuits
By Jack Phillips Lawyer Sidney Powell said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to reject two cases regarding alleged election fraud in Wisconsin and Arizona, while adding that two cases were docketed in Michigan and Georgia but won’t be heard until mid-January. According to the lawyer’s tweets, the court’s “electronic filing system shows our EMERGENCY Petitions docketed for […]
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Wisconsin Election Official: No Evidence of Fraud Related to Dominion Machines
By Zachary Stieber An election official in Wisconsin testified Friday that there’s no evidence of fraud related to Dominion Voting Systems machines. “In Wisconsin, there were no dumps of ballots during the night none. There is no evidence of any fraud related to Dominion voting machines in Wisconsin, none. The counting in Wisconsin did not stop and restart. Election […]
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Irregularities, Fraud Caused Trump to Lose Wisconsin: Election Commissioner
By Zachary Stieber A member of the Wisconsin election board said Friday that irregularities, fraud, and “Democrat tricks” caused President Donald Trump to lose the state after narrowly winning it four years ago. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden beat Trump in this year’s election by approximately 20,000 votes. Bob Spindell, a Republican commissioner on the Wisconsin Elections Commission, […]
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Wisconsin USPS Subcontractor Alleges Backdating of Tens of Thousands of Mail-In Ballots
By Isabel Van Brugen A Madison, Wisconsin, man who said he worked as a postal subcontractor in the run up to Election Day, alleged on Tuesday that he was told by USPS employees that his post office planned to backdate tens of thousands of mail-in ballots. Ethan Pease was one of three individuals who testified in a news conference […]
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New Lawsuit Asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to Declare All Drop-Box Ballots Illegal and Block Certification
By Tom Ozimek A new lawsuit filed with the Wisconsin Supreme Court seeks to block the state from certifying the election results, arguing that all ballots cast via drop boxes are illegal and should be discarded, and if such ballots cannot be reliably identified for rejection, then the state legislature should nominate its own slate of presidential electors. […]
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Wisconsin Election Officials Say State Supreme Court Shouldn’t Invalidate Election
By Zachary Stieber Election officials in Wisconsin asked the state’s Supreme Court on Friday not to invalidate the Nov. 3 election. The Wisconsin Elections Commission said plaintiffs who filed an emergency petition earlier this week made arguments that rest “on the flimsiest of legal and factual bases.” “They begin with a smorgasbord of meritless legal arguments about how the election […]
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Trump Lawyer in Wisconsin Seeks to Get His Own Vote Thrown Out
By Jack Phillips Campaign alleges state illegally issued absentee ballots to in-person voters, wants thousands of votes tossed. A Trump campaign lawyer in Wisconsin is attempting to get potentially his own vote—and thousands of others—thrown out due to the allegedly illegal way in which they were cast. Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and lawyer representing […]
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Group Files Emergency Petition in Wisconsin After Identifying 150,000 Potentially Fraudulent Ballots
By Zachary Stieber A group on Tuesday filed an emergency petition with the Wisconsin Supreme Court, challenging the state’s unofficial election results. The Thomas More Society’s Amistad Project said it found tens of thousands of ballots that may be fraudulent. “We have identified over 150,000 potentially fraudulent ballots in Wisconsin, more than enough to call into question the validity of the […]
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Wisconsin Officials Find Uncounted Ballots During Recount
By Zachary Stieber Election officials in Wisconsin on Nov. 24 found a batch of uncounted ballots during the state’s partial recount. Officials found 386 uncounted ballots. Milwaukee’s elections board voted 3–0 to count the ballots, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. Claire Woodall-Vogg, Milwaukee’s chief election official, took the ballots to be opened and counted. “It was a human error on […]
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In Wisconsin recount, Trump challenges pile up, slow tally
By Michael Tarm, Associated Press MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin recount observer Ardis Cerny stretched her neck as far as she could toward a Plexiglas divider separating her from two vote counters, eagle-eyeing them as they scrutinized ballot papers one by one. When one tabulator told the ardent supporter of President Donald Trump she was leaning […]