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Milwaukee County vote recount gives Biden small boost The Milwaukee County vote totals increased for both candidates after election officials found several hundred ballots earlier this week.
Claire Woodall-Vogg, the chief election official for the City of Milwaukee, said the ballots were not initially counted due to “human error.” “I promised this would be a transparent and
fair process, and it was,” said Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson. Trump’s campaign appears to be preparing a court challenge to change the election’s outcome, but his window to sue
is narrow. The deadline to certify the vote is Tuesday. Certification is done by the Democratic chair of the Wisconsin Election Commission, which is bipartisan. Advertisement: The Wisconsin
Voters Alliance, a conservative group, has already filed a lawsuit against election officials, seeking to block certification of the results. It echoes many of the claims Trump is expected
to make. Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ attorneys filed a response to the lawsuit on Friday, calling it a “brazen attack on democracy itself” and asked the state Supreme Court to dismiss it.
Evers, a Democrat, said the group’s lawsuit is a “mishmash of legal distortions” that uses factual misrepresentations in an attempt to take voting rights away from millions of Wisconsin
residents. He argues that failing to certify the election results would overturn other election results across the state, throwing the government into chaos. Trump’s attorneys have targeted
absentee ballots where voters identified themselves as “indefinitely confined,” allowing them to cast an absentee ballot without showing a photo ID; ballots that have a certification
envelope with two different ink colors, indicating a poll worker may have helped complete it; and absentee ballots that don’t have a separate written record for its request, such as
in-person absentee ballots. Election officials have counted those ballots during the recount, but marked them as exhibits at the request of the Trump campaign. Advertisement: Trump’s
campaign has already failed elsewhere in court without proof of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist. Trump legal challenges have failed in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan,
Nevada and Pennsylvania. On Monday, the federal government recognized Biden as the “apparent winner” of the Nov. 3 election over Trump. Even though Trump kept up his attacks on the election,
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