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Wayne County Canvassers Board Republicans Rescind Votes Certifying Election

by USNN2020November 19, 2020January 12, 2021

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1000s of Uncounted Votes | 9K Vote Glitch for Biden | Trump Gains in Georgia | Facts Matter

by USNN2020November 19, 2020January 12, 2021

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Loeffler Says Republicans Are ‘Firewall Against Socialism’ in US Ahead of Georgia Runoff

by USNN2020November 19, 2020January 12, 2021

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Former Senate Leader of Minnesota’s Democrats Leaves Party

by USNN2020November 19, 2020January 12, 2021

The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday night issued an order to recount ballots in two counties following a request by President Donald Trump’s campaign. Commissioners in a video teleconference on Wednesday argued for nearly six hours before ultimately agreeing to conduct the recount. “An order will be issued mandating that the recount take place. This is not a discretionary decision. This is simply what will happen,” Chairwoman Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, said at the beginning of the hearing. But members of the commission, which has three Republicans and three Democrats, debated for hours over how the recount would be conducted. Some said state law governing a recount contained ambiguities. Republican Commissioner Dean Knudson said he believed the commission should issue guidance to canvassers that they should set aside ballots that had a correction made to the witness address. “They’ve essentially filed in advance a mass objection to all such ballots, that in this era of pandemic, and all our concerns for public health, and so on, it’s kind of ridiculous to have the observers have to be close enough to see each one and object individually to each one, when instead, we could give guidance at the outset that says, ‘hey, those need to be set aside, because those are going to be under litigation,'” Knudson said. “I don’t necessarily think that as a commission, we should be pre-determining what ballots are going to be questioned or what envelopes are going to be questioned. That’s not our position,” Democrat Commissioner Julie Glancey said, though the Republican Party of the Trump campaign could recommend canvassers do so. Wisconsin Counts Poll workers check-in a box of absentee ballots at Sun Prairie High School in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, on Nov. 3, 2020. (Andy Manis/Getty Images) Knudson sparked stronger pushback when he wondered whether clerks sent out thousands of ballots that weren’t requested by voters as he proposed including written applications in the recount. “I am shocked and offended that you have implied in any way that clerks in Madison and Milwaukee have sent out thousands of unrequested ballots,” Jacobs said. “I think that’s absurd. I think it’s factually bizarre.” “What we ought not be doing is watering that plant of baloney,” she added, referring to allegations by the Trump campaign. The commission eventually approved an order that made no reference to its recount manual, which has guidelines for how local officials should conduct recounts. Trump’s campaign earlier in the day filed a petition asking for recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties because of alleged “illegally altered absentee ballots, illegally issued absentee ballots, and illegal advice given by government officials allowing Wisconsin’s voter ID laws to be circumvented.” “The Wisconsin Elections Commission directed Wisconsin municipal clerks to illegally alter incomplete absentee ballots contrary to Wisconsin law,” the campaign added. The commission has said clerks are required by guidance issued before the 2016 election to fix addresses. trump and biden Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (L) and President Donald Trump in file photographs. (Getty Images; Reuters) The campaign also alleged that clerks across the state issued absentee ballots to voters without requiring an application, in direct conflict with Wisconsin’s absentee voting safeguards. The campaign transferred $3 million to the state to cover the estimated cost of the partial recount. Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden finished with 20,427 more votes than Trump, or 0.62 percent of the vote, according to unofficial statewide results. State law allows a candidate who ends up within 1 percent of the winner’s total to request a recount. If the margin is less than 0.25 percent, the state foots the bill, but if it’s between 0.25 percent and 1 percent, the requestee must. A full statewide recount can still be requested. The commission chair will on Thursday issue the recount order, triggering a 13-day recount clock. Recount boards can meet as soon as Nov. 19 and no later than Nov. 21. All recounts must be completed and results filed with the commission by noon on Dec. 1, a day that also marks the deadline for the commission to certify results from the election. “We understand the eyes of the world will be on these Wisconsin counties over the next few weeks,” Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s chief election official, said in a statement. “We remain committed to providing information about the process and assisting our county clerks by providing facts on the mechanics of a recount and status updates.” Jack Phillips contributed to this report.

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Wisconsin Elections Commission Agrees to Order Partial Recount After Trump Request

by USNN2020November 19, 2020January 12, 2021

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Georgia Recount Witnesses Saw Trump Votes Counted for Biden

by USNN2020November 18, 2020December 28, 2024

National Security & Defense

Marines Prep for Possible War in Europe During Massive East Coast Training Exercise

by USNN2020November 18, 2020January 12, 2021

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Lawmakers at Hearing Largely Agree Section 230 Reform Needed

by USNN2020November 18, 2020June 26, 2024

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Mail-In Ballots in Pennsylvania Not Registered in State Data, Hundreds of Voters Say

by USNN2020November 18, 2020February 26, 2025

Opinion

What American Schools Should Teach About Race, Racism, and Slavery

by USNN2020November 18, 2020January 12, 2021

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Trump Campaign Calls for Partial Recount in Wisconsin, Alleges Illegally-Altered Ballots

by USNN2020November 18, 2020August 27, 2025

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Georgia Monitor Catches 9,626-Vote Error in Hand Recount

by USNN2020November 18, 2020February 26, 2025

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Obama should be known as a disgraced president who used the FBI against his political enemies

By Tucker Carlson | Fox News On Inauguration Day, 2017, it is likely that not 1 in 100,000 Americans was thinking about Russia. It was the last thing most people were ...

AOC removed from union-backed progressive party ballot line in New York

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was booted from the progressive union-backed Working Families Party (WFP) ballot line by a Queens judge, a blow to ...

Feds spent nearly $100B on pandemic readiness, health security in decade leading up to coronavirus crisis

By Tyler Olson | Fox News Over the past decade, the U.S. government spent nearly $100 billion on preparation for major health crises including pandemics, according to a 2018 paper ...

‘Pretty clear’ Democrats are trying to ‘rig’ California special election

By Talia Kaplan | Fox News National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Emmer said on “Fox & Friends” on Monday that it is “pretty clear” that Democrats are trying to “rig” ...

NBC admits Chuck Todd’s ‘Meet the Press’ deceptively edited Barr remarks on Flynn

By Gregg Re | Fox News NBC News’ Chuck Todd aired a deceptively edited clip of Attorney General Bill Barr discussing the Michael Flynn case during his “Meet the Press” ...

Doctor flying with United Airlines shares photo of packed flight, says passengers were ‘scared,’ ‘shocked’

By Michael Bartiromo | Fox News Well, this looks cozy. A cardiologist from San Francisco says he won’t be “flying again for a very long time” after every seat on ...

Top House Republican issues ‘call to arms’ about Dems trying to ‘steal’ Calif. election; Trump joins effort

By Marisa Schultz | Fox News The leader of the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) sent a memo to all House Republicans Saturday with an “urgent call to arms” ...

Trump campaign releases Spanish ad targeting Dems defending Biden over Tara Reade claims

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Brooke Singman | Fox News The Trump campaign released a new ad in Spanish targeting Democrats for their response to the allegations Tara Reade made against presumptive Democratic ...

Kayleigh McEnany calls out CNN for having guests who pushed Russia collusion, following transcript revelations

By Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany responded to CNN’s reporting on her past rhetoric about President Trump by turning the tables on the liberal network, ...

Ex-Obama official, in released transcript, admits she didn’t know about Trump-Russia collusion despite prior claims

By Tyler Olson | Fox News Evelyn Farkas, a former Obama administration official who previously encouraged congressional staffers to gather evidence of alleged collusion between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia and said she “knew” there ...

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By Brian Flood | Fox News FiveThirtyEight editor Nate Silver said the mainstream media is not giving proper context to stories on the rise of coronavirus cases, which he calls a ...

Murder of Ahmaud Arbery, claims of racism, cronyism thrusts Georgia town into national spotlight

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News A small segregated town in Southeast Georgia is divided – and at the center of a national conversation about race – after a white father ...