Trump campaign to request recount in Dane and Milwaukee counties

[Jimbo S]

Source: The Cap Times

Wisconsin, President Donald Trump's campaign has wired $3 million to the state to cover costs in a key battleground state he lost by some 20,600 votes.

The $3 million, received by the Wisconsin Elections Commission, falls short of the estimated $7.9 million needed to complete a full statewide recount, though the sum could go toward a more targeted request.

But while the campaign has yet to file a petition formally seeking a retallying of the votes cast in the November presidential contest, officials in a statement Wednesday morning said they'd target Dane and Milwaukee counties, the state's two liberal strongholds, as they noted concerns over absentee balloting.

"The people of Wisconsin deserve to know whether their election processes worked in a legal and transparent way," former Dane County Judge Jim Troupis, a counsel to the campaign, said in the statement. "Regrettably, the integrity of the election results cannot be trusted without a recount in these two counties and uniform enforcement of Wisconsin absentee ballot requirements."


Read more: https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/trump-campaign-to-request-recount-in-dane-and-milwaukee-counties/article_346a5ec7-16a0-5f31-b14f-c350e0009c8a.html#tracking-source=home-breaking

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Well, looks as is the Trump campaign is not totally broke. Just enough to pay for a recount in two counties. Notice that it's never the red counties.

On edit: I had received an e-mail from the state party chair looking for recount volunteers. But since I'm not in the two counties, a moot point.

[Proud liberal 80]

1. This is stupid

How are they allowed to request a recount in only two counties.

[KPN]

5. Frankly, they shouldn't be. It's a statewide election result that matters in the

presidential race. They all need to be recounted or none.

[C Moon]

14. They want to find irregularities, and then ask all mailed in votes be removed.

[Maeve]

2. They cheaped out

But they are still game (but getting gamey)

[nykym]

3. would love to see this

Received $3,000,000.00
Balance due $1.234,091.61
Recount will not start until balance is paid in full.
You have 3 days to remit payment.

[maddogesq]

10. I am sure the begging emails are going out as we speak.

Sooner or later, even the most diehard cult contributors are going to tire of sending money to a lost cause

Fleece, fleece, fleece...

[Laelth]

4. This worries me. It's got "Bush v. Gore" stench.

Florida law in 2000 gave Gore the option to select which counties he wanted recounted. The SCOTUS struck down the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling (allowing the properly-requested recounts to proceed) on 14th Amendment equal protection grounds—if you’re going to recount, you have to recount the whole state in order to satisfy equal protection. I worry that this two-county recount will run afoul of the 14th Amendment and get this case before the SCOTUS.

I make no prediction about what the SCOTUS might do with it, and WI doesn’t (alone) have enough electoral votes to change the outcome of the recent election, but selective county recounts have been deemed unconstitutional once, and that’s reason for concern, despite the fact that the SCOTUS declared that Bush v. Gore had no precedential standing.

-Laelth

[LisaL]

6. Which is why our lawyers should be on it.

NT

[Tech]

7. Never ever ever trust republicans in Wisconsin.

[TheRealNorth]

11. This

[justgamma]

8. He sure is good

throwing away other people's money. No wonder he's broke..

[greenjar_01]

9. They're trying to provoke Biden campaign into countersuing so they can tie up certification

in court proceedings.

[CrispyQ]

12. Why haven't they filed the petition yet? -nt

[Borchkins]

13. Jim Troupis is an

effing tool.

Good, count my vote in Dane County twice and let the mfer lose again!

[pansypoo53219]

15. well, they found more biden votes in georgia. likely he will lose by more.