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A group of Wisconsin voters are challenging the presidential election.

Wisconsin voters have asked the state supreme court to stop the certification of the state’s presidential election results, alleging the integrity of the election was compromised.

Wisconsin Voter Alliance, the lead petitioner, accuses the state of using millions of dollars from Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg to “circumvent Wisconsin absentee voting laws” in order to cast “tens of thousands of illegal absentee ballots.”

Because of this, the petition says, the “close Presidential election” in the state is nullified, and the Court should stop the results from being certified.

The state has until Dec. 1 to certify its presidential election results, according to The Washington Post.

The petitioners claim the Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL), a private organization funded by Zuckerberg, gave $6 million to several largely Democratic cities in Wisconsin “in order for those cities to facilitate the use of absentee voting in violation of Wisconsin law.”

The petition states the margin of votes separating President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump in Wisconsin — 20,608 — is exceeded by the number of “illegal” votes, legal votes that were not counted, “counting errors and illegalities.”

For example, voters’ petition estimates, more than 14,000 ballots were requested “in the name of a registered Republican by someone other than that person.” Also included were an estimated 12,000 Republican ballots that were requested and returned but not counted, and more than 96,000 electors who voted absentee after allegedly falsely identifying themselves as “indefinitely confined” in order to circumvent voter ID laws.

Other examples of voter fraud included in the lawsuit are out-of-state residents who voted in the state, double votes and electors who didn’t vote where they lived.

Altogether, the voters claim, 156,807 ballots were illegally counted, though there may be some overlap.

According to the petition, the CTCL’s gifts to five cities — Green Bay, Kenosha, Madison, Milwaukee and Racine — were a violation of Wisconsin law because they did not receive legislative approval; gifts relating to elections may only be received by the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC).

Even then, the WEC may only take in money “from sources other than taxation and that is limited to applying for a federal grand under Wisconsin’s Election Plan created under the Help America Vote Act.”

The petitioners say cities decided to close nearly all polling locations ahead of the April 7 primary, during the height of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic. This action “severely limited” voters’ ability to vote in-person and compelled more of them to vote absentee, which the petitioners say is “specifically discouraged” by state law.

A group of Wisconsin voters are challenging the presidential election.According to the petition, “after losing nearly 250 poll workers and refusing National Guard assistance,” Green Bay’s mayor and the Brown County clerk used private funding from the Center for Technology and Civic Life and “promoted recruiting untrained volunteers to work at the Green Bay polls.”

Allegedly, the CTCL required cities to submit their election plans to the organization.

Through this plan, presented June 15, the cities allegedly agreed the CTCL money would be used for hiring elections personnel, to “encourage and increase absentee voting” and to utilize absentee ballot drop-boxes, among other things.

This encouragement of absentee voting also is prohibited by Wisconsin statute, the lawsuit claims.

The absentee ballots were allegedly further problematic in that they were allowed to be counted even when there was reason to believe the person was not “indefinitely confined” due to a directive from the WEC administrator that contradicted state law.

A number of other allegations are leveled at the WEC in the petition.

One such claim is that election officials didn’t enforce residency requirements for voters whose address changed ahead of Election Day.

The petition also claims officials did not prohibit people from voting more than once and that the election wasn’t transparent because the cities benefiting from the CTCL money were conducting their elections “pursuant to an agreement with CTCL rather than Wisconsin law.” 

The petitioners say a government data report conducted by petitioners’ expert Matthew Braynard, supports their position that Wisconsin’s presidential election results are void.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul disagreed with the petitioners’ assertions, telling The Associated Press the litigation seeks to “disenfranchise every Wisconsinite who voted in this year’s presidential election.”

“The Wisconsin Department of Justice will ensure that Wisconsin’s presidential electors are selected based on the will of the more than 3 million Wisconsin voters who cast a ballot,” Kaul said.

Justices have given the WEC until Friday to respond to the lawsuit and set a Monday deadline for anyone not named in the lawsuit to file an amicus brief, according to Wisconsin Public Radio. 

Do you think the Wisconsin Supreme Court should halt the certification of the state’s presidential election results? Tell us your opinion in the comment section below.

The plaintiffs are represented by Erick G. Kaardal, special counsel to the Amistad Project of the Thomas More Society, and Gregory M. Erickson of Mohrman, Kaardal & Erickson PA.

The Wisconsin Presidential Election Results Petition is Wisconsin Voters Alliance, et al. v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, et al., Case No. 2020AP001930, in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

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2 thoughts onPresidential Election Results Challenged With Lawsuit in Wisconsin

  1. Jeffrey Wilson says:

    In the Army, we were not given any option to vote while I was in basic training 2020. None of us who went through AIT with me voted. That’s hundreds of soldiers. We were not even informed of any mail-in ballot until I got home in December.

  2. Rosa I Winter says:

    Yes, if there is fraud, absolutely the vote should be decertified in Wisconsin and other states. There is so much that was not verified in this election. The rules of election were not followed. Mail in ballots lends itself to fraud.

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