The Trump campaign announced Wednesday that it has filed for a recount in two Wisconsin counties, Milwaukee and Dane. The campaign said it paid a three million dollar filing fee for the recount in the two counties, which the state has acknowledged receiving. A statewide recount would cost about $7.9 million. The deadline for filing is 5 p.m. Wednesday.
Wisconsin results, November 4, screen image.
Biden’s statewide lead over President Trump in Wisconsin is currently about 20,00 votes.
Statement by the campaign:
Trump Campaign Files a Petition for Recount in Two Wisconsin Counties
President Donald J. Trump’s re-election campaign will file a petition today for a recount in two Wisconsin counties – Milwaukee and Dane – citing illegally altered absentee ballots, illegally issued absentee ballots, and illegal advice given by government officials allowing Wisconsin’s Voter ID laws to be circumvented. These two counties were selected because they are the locations of the worst irregularities. Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. transferred $3 million to Wisconsin to cover the estimated cost of the recounts.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission directed Wisconsin municipal clerks to illegally alter incomplete absentee ballots contrary to Wisconsin law. Clerks were instructed that they could rely on their own “personal knowledge,” or unspecified “lists or databases at his or her disposal” to add in missing information on returned absentee ballots. Under Wisconsin law, incomplete absentee ballots may not be counted.
You mean voter fraud by filling in other peoples ballots? Say it ain’t so Joe. Oh Joe would call it a lie as the votes were for him.