Trump has now filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin alleging illegal votes which should be thrown out.
Despite the fact that state law requires election challenges to be filed in circuit court Trump applied directly to the Supreme Court possibly because conservatives hold a 4-3 majority there. The court has not indicated if it will take the case.
The votes Trump claims are illegal are:
- 170,140 ballots cast early
- 28,395 ballots cast by voters who claimed indefinite confinement
- 17,271 ballots collected at democracy in the park events
- 5,517 ballots in which clerks filled in missing information
Apparently these are only ballots from Milwaukee and Dane counties.
This strikes me as bizarre and most of these things have been standard in Wisconsin for at least a decade. The democracy in the park thing was essentially poll workers acting as drop boxes.
Things are just getting more and more disgusting.
Update: Mike Kelly, after being shot down by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, has reportedly filed an emergency appeal to the US Supreme Court. Their claim is that the Pennsylvania legislature exceeded its power by allowing universal mail-in voting and the SCOTUS should nullify Joe Biden's victory in the state.
This is pretty incredible and if Samuel Alito, who has responsibility for the 3rd Circuit, doesn't dismiss the case out of hand then the republic will totter a little more on the edge.
Aside from the fact that it should be the state courts which have the final say about the state constitution, it would make no sense to disenfranchise millions of voters for doing what they were told to do.
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