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Biden gains 87 votes in Trump's $3M Wisconsin recount as Dane County wraps up review. President plans lawsuit.

Biden gains 87 votes in Trump's $3M Wisconsin recount as Dane County wraps up review. President plans lawsuit.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin's partial recount boosted President-elect Joe Biden's victory by 87 votes Sunday as President Donald Trump said he was preparing a lawsuit to overturn the results.

The completion of Dane County’s retallying of the vote came two days after Milwaukee County finished its recount.

Biden netted 132 votes in Milwaukee County and Trump netted 45 votes in Dane County. When taken together, that increased Biden's statewide margin to 21,695.

Trump's campaign paid $3 million to cover the cost of the recounts in Wisconsin’s two most Democratic counties so he could pursue a long-shot lawsuit to claim the state’s 10 electoral votes.

Milwaukee County’s recount netted Biden netted 132 more votes over the initial results. Much of the increase occurred because tabulators discovered 386 votes had not been counted on Election Day.

The vote total in Dane County will change by dozens of votes, but nowhere near enough to shift the state from Biden to Trump, said Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell. Biden won Wisconsin by about 21,600 votes according to the initial tally.

Trump on Saturday tweeted that he would file a lawsuit in Wisconsin by Tuesday, when the state Elections Commission is set to certify the results.

"The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday," Trump wrote.

The recount has not turned up evidence of fraud, prompting Twitter to label his tweet as disputed. Trump's campaign has alleged long-standing voting practices in Wisconsin are illegal and sought to throw out about 238,000 ballots in Dane and Milwaukee counties.

The campaign claims all early in-person votes in those counties are illegitimate, including ones cast by GOP state Sen. Alberta Darling of River Hills, GOP state Rep. Jessie Rodriguez of Oak Creek and Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis. Democrats, election officials and election attorneys have called the claim preposterous, noting the state has been conducting early in-person voting the same way for a decade without any challenges.

Trump has faced setback after setback in legal challenges in other states and he faces an uphill battle in Wisconsin. Even if he managed to change the outcome in Wisconsin, Biden would still be able to claim the presidency because of his victories in other states.

Already there are two lawsuits over the election results pending before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Both are asking the high court to throw out results and allow the Republican-controlled Legislature to decide how to cast the state’s votes in the Electoral College.

The justices have not said whether they would accept the cases. Conservatives hold a 4-3 majority on the court.

In one lawsuit, the Wisconsin Voters Alliance contended many of the state's votes were illegal because clerks filled in the addresses for witnesses on some absentee ballot envelopes and some absentee voters may have claimed to be indefinitely confined even though they weren't. Indefinitely confined voters, such as the elderly and disabled, can get absentee ballots without having to provide a photo ID to election officials.

The group also maintains it was illegal for Milwaukee, Madison and other Wisconsin cities to accept $6.3 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life to help run their elections. The group earlier made that claim in a federal lawsuit, but U.S. District Judge William Griesbach ruled against them.

"The Wisconsin Voters Alliance, we're concerned by the money that goes from private individuals who have an impact on elections," said Ron Heuer, the group's president. "We're not going to give up on that fight, come hell or high water. That is our ultimate goal to have that business stopped."

Heuer formed the Wisconsin Voters Alliance in September and about 50 people belong to it, he said. Heuer is a retired travel industry executive and U.S. Army veteran who is chairman of the Republican Party of Kewaunee County.

On Friday, Dean Mueller of Chippewa Falls filed a lawsuit asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reject the state's votes because many communities set up absentee ballot drop boxes that he contends were not allowed under state law.

The state Supreme Court is expected to decide soon whether to take up the cases.

Bill Glauber of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.

Contact Patrick Marley at patrick.marley@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @patrickdmarley.
 
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