WI recount likely to end in court

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Molly Beck
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

The attorney leading President Donald Trump’s recount effort in Wisconsin voted illegally according to his own legal argument that in-person absentee ballots should be thrown out. So did his wife.

Jim Troupis, a former Dane County judge and Cross Plains attorney who is representing the Trump campaign, would not answer questions about why he and his wife voted that way.

Troupis and his wife voted early using the state's in-person absentee option — one of a group of voters whose ballots the Trump campaign has asked election officials to deem illegal.

Their names appeared on exhibits Troupis submitted to the Dane County Board of Canvassers on Sunday, during the county's third day of retallying ballots. The exhibits include lists of voters who voted in a manner the campaign alleges is illegal, an argument the Board of Canvassers has rejected. The information was provided by Dane County to both campaigns ...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/22/attorney-heading-up-trump-recount-wants-throw-out-his-own-vote/6382647002/

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1. Fourth day of WI partial recount shows few changes

Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal
Mitchell Schmidt | Wisconsin State Journal

The fourth day of Wisconsin’s partial recount got underway in Dane and Milwaukee counties on Monday with little change to the overall vote count and smoother operations in Dane County compared with day one.

Figures provided by the two counties to the Wisconsin Elections Commission show that President Donald Trump so far has netted an additional 41 votes in the two counties out of the roughly 800,000 total votes cast there.

In Dane County so far, Biden’s total dropped by 51 votes and Trump’s decreased by 10, while in Milwaukee County, both Biden and Trump netted one vote each.

Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said 82,796 out of 345,604 ballots in Dane County, or about a quarter of the total votes, had been tabulated since the recount effort began on Friday at Monona Terrace and counting started in earnest on Saturday. The figures Milwaukee County provided to the WEC show it has tabulated roughly 13% of its total votes ...

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/fourth-day-of-wisconsins-partial-recount-shows-few-changes-to-vote-count/article_f1404415-3403-5da3-9b12-00a5f2963469.html

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2. I thank Trump and his legal team for providing comedy source material for many years to come.

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3. WI recount not likely to finish this week

By Benjamin Yount | The Center Square 11 hrs ago

... Election managers in both Milwaukee and Dane counties say they will not finish their recount efforts until after Thanksgiving.

Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers Chair Tim Posnanski told that to one of Trump's lawyers on Monday.

“I would note for the record that I believe there were delays caused by the Trump campaign and how certain observers were conducting themselves. And I anticipate we would be much further along in the process had that not occurred,” Posnanski said ...

https://www.thecentersquare.com/wisconsin/wisconsin-presidential-recount-not-likely-to-finish-this-week/article_2f90bca4-2dc9-11eb-b948-6397ec836b02.html

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4. makes one wonder how many of those 51 decreased Biden votes were from

"delays caused by the Trump campaign and how certain observers were conducting themselves."

This whole recount mess of course an exercise in futility, all because the biggest loser refuses to accept the defeat.

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5. 'The Biggest Loser'--The teevee show originally starring tЯump.