Posted on 11/14/2020 8:50:23 AM PST by gattaca
Three voters in Wisconsin have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to exclude Nov. 3 election results in three of the state’s counties that helped push Joe Biden ahead of President Donald Trump. The action, if successful, would invalidate over 792,000 votes cast across the state.
The civil action (pdf), filed on Thursday, alleges that there is “sufficient evidence that illegal votes were counted” in Milwaukee, Dane, and Menominee counties “to change or place in doubt the results” of the presidential election in the counties. The voters asked the court to declare that the counties’ results “must be invalidated” and to block the counties from certifying their results.
All three counties lean heavily Democrat, with Milwaukee and Dane being among the most populous and heavily Democratic counties in the state. For the three counties, Biden holds a lead of 365,289 votes over Trump. In the state overall, Biden holds a lead of about 20,540 votes at 49.6 percent, compared to Trump at 48.9 percent as of Saturday. The Trump campaign has signaled it will request a recount.
“Certifying presidential electors without excluding certain counties would violate voters’ fundamental right to vote by vote-dilution disenfranchisement,” the suit said, citing the First and 14th Amendment protections.
The lawsuit stated: “Because illegal votes dilute legal votes, the evidence establishes, and will establish, that the rights of voters have been violated by vote-dilution disenfranchisement. Consequently, the presidential election results from the counties identified should not be included in certified and reported totals for presidential electors from this state.”
The suit asserted, citing past court rulings, that there is fraud risk inherent in mail-in ballots, and that voter fraud occurs more with mailed ballots than in-person ballots. It points out that Wisconsin “greatly expanded” the scope of mail-in ballots in 2020 amid the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic.
Wisconsin Counts Poll workers check in a box of absentee ballots at Sun Prairie High School in Sun Prairie, Wis., on Nov. 3, 2020. (Andy Manis/Getty Images) Plaintiffs noted that the “sudden flood of mailed ballots” this year meant that election workers in general had “less ability to carefully review them to screen out fraudulent ones, creating a substantial risk that fraudulent votes will be counted and vote-dilution disenfranchisement will occur.”
The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin Green Bay Division. The plaintiffs are from Door County, Brown County, and Oconto County. The Wisconsin Democratic Party on Friday filed a motion to intervene (pdf).
Data Analysis The lawsuit states that plaintiffs “possess advanced technical capability to conduct statistical analyses identifying errors and anomalies such [as] double votes, votes by non-registered persons, votes by persons who are deceased or moved out of state, and the like.”
“Plaintiffs have persons with such expertise and data-analysis software already in place who have begun preliminary analysis of available data to which final data, such as the official poll list, will be added and reports generated,” the suit said, suggesting that the results will show that “sufficient illegal ballots were included in the results to change or place in doubt the Nov. 3 presidential election results.”
They said that the expert report will “identify persons who cast votes illegally by casting multiple ballots, were deceased, had moved, or were otherwise not qualified to vote in the Nov. 3 presidential election, along with evidence of illegal ballot stuffing, ballot harvesting, and other illegal voting.”
The plaintiffs are seeking “immediate production of registration, election, and other data to conduct and present those analyses to the court.”
‘Indefinitely Confined’ Not Requiring Voter ID Plaintiffs also took issue with a 238 percent increase—from 72,000 last year to 243,900 ahead of the Nov. 3 election—in a type of absentee ballot registration where voters self-report as “indefinitely confined.” This type of registration would mean that the voter wouldn’t need to present the ID normally required of a standard absentee ballot.
Wisconsin law regarding voter ID provides exceptions for individuals who declare as “indefinitely confined” either due to age, physical illness, infirmity, or disability, on their absentee ballots.
The suit alleged that the town of Menominee in Menominee County in early spring “encouraged” voters to vote absentee and provided instructions (pdf) that said “indefinitely confined” voters “are not required to provide a photo ID.” The suit also noted that Dane County and Milwaukee County earlier this year had “openly advised voters to indicate that they are ‘indefinitely confined.'”
All three counties saw notable increases in “indefinitely confined” voters.
The Republican Party of Wisconsin said earlier this year that the clerks’ advice in the respective counties were “willfully ignoring” state election law, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court subsequently ruled that the counties’ advice were “legally incorrect.”
Wisconsin Election officials count absentee ballots at City Hall in Beloit, Wis., on Nov. 3, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Other Issues The plaintiffs also noted the situation surrounding absentee ballot witness signatures and their addresses on the ballot envelope.
Under Wisconsin law, a ballot cannot be counted if the witness’s address is not present. However, the plaintiffs noted how the Wisconsin Elections Commission had issued guidance (pdf) saying that the issue could be cured by the clerk without the witness appearing.
The suit argued that the clerks “have no authority to accept the ballot,” and cites how Wisconsin law states (pdf) that “if a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted.”
The suit also pointed out several individuals, identified by their initials only, who alleged that they encountered voting irregularities, which included having received unsolicited ballots, or having received more absentee ballots than expected, and finding names of deceased voters who, according to myvotewi.gov, cast an absentee vote.
A number of media outlets declared Democratic nominee Joe Biden president-elect on Nov. 7. President Donald Trump has alleged voter fraud and said any declarations of victory are premature, without specifying how widespread the alleged cases are. His campaign has launched multiple legal challenges in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arizona, Nevada, and Michigan, over a variety of alleged voting irregularities.
States face a Dec. 8 deadline for resolving election disputes and certifying presidential electors. Electoral College votes will be cast on Dec. 14. As such, the plaintiffs in the case are seeking a quick decision from the court.
The Epoch Times won’t declare a winner of the 2020 presidential election until all results are certified and any legal challenges are resolved.
Throwing out the votes in Milwaukee and Madison would be go a long way in swinging Wisconsin to Trump.
No court is going to agree with the exclusion of this many votes, no matter how bogus they might appear.
The Epoch Times is a good read only news paper that’s not left.
This is exactly what should happen in every precinct, county and state across the United States. The actual harm caused by illegal/fraudulent votes is to the voters who voted legally. They are truly the ones with legal standing to bring theses law suits.
It is probably the only legal remedy, since it is impossible to determine for whom the illegal votes were cast, it can only be assumed that the entire batch of ballots from these different entities are spoiled and as such, cannot be included in vote totals.
This would more than likely change the vote totals to favor Trump/Pence (and other down ballot Republicans) in MN, MI, PA, NV, AZ, GA, VA and probably other states as well. The result would be (the predicted) electoral landslide.
Seventy Eight million voters voted for Biden/Harris.
Sure. If pigs had wings . . .
Cat:
Chill with the negative vibes.
Really—cut it out.
Uh oh. Somebody ping Fawkes News. Their efforts to dynamite Trump’s presidency may have failed.
“No court is going to agree with the exclusion of this many votes, no matter how bogus they might appear.”
To put it simply, the pot has been poisoned.
We know that in each of those counties, there are illegal or invalid votes for Biden and there is no way to extract only the illegal or invalid Biden votes.
Therefore, all the ballots should be removed.
This is fantastic to see. I read a bit about the whole “indefinitely confined” thing recently and it is an absolute OUTRAGE. The barn-sized opening for fraud this absurd classification facilitated makes my blood boil. There is zero chance honest motives are behind that change in WI election law.
I am expecting a lot of disbelief among the 71 million Trump voters that all these challenges that fail are really only based on unfounded rumors.
Much worse than “Oswald killed Kennedy and acted alone” , “UFOs are really reflections of the planet Venus”and “Obama was a legal resident of the United States at birth” which simmered below the surface. Don’t forget: “If you like your doctor you can keep you doctor.” “Obamacare will save the individual $2,000 to $4,000 a year on average and result in lower health care and drug costs for all.”
This vote fraud abomination will not go silently into the
quiet night.
Then it is time for real solutions.
All Americans are disenfranchised when a federal election is stolen.
The other states should have standing to take legal action.
TEXAS should be all over this.
Guessing that will be shot down. Our best hope is getting enough evidence and getting in front of the Supreme Court.. Sydney thinks she has it. I hope she goes scorched earth. Lol.
The Trump and Trump supporters Fraud War will expose demonrats and their deep state leaders!
President Trump WON BY A LANDSLIDE.
Heads will roll!
Go Trump, Rudy, Sidney and everyone involved in exposing these despicable people who are enemies of our republic!
Go Trump supporters!
This IMO is how you win this thing. The narrative must be to throw out illegal votes. Republicans keep saying “count all legal votes”. There is a huge differance. Continuing to count is how biden got ahead. We need to be throwing out illegal votes. Once we have thrown out every single illegal and invalid vote, THEN we count.
Love them Wisconsin people.....
The whole objective was to poison the soup, to cast doubt all around on the integrity of the vote. Well, mission accomplished.
The popularity contest held in every state to select the slate of electors who actually hold power to elect the President has been made into a mockery by the combination of several different kinds of fraud, and the nature of these frauds is that none, NONE, may be prosecuted in the degree or scope of the actual fraud in a timely manner in which the outcome of the election could possibly be affected.
It would seem, in the short term, there are few ways to remedy this deadly flaw in our system of elections, which are determined not by the Federal government, but by each of the several states. And there is much of this chicanery that goes unchecked at the level of many of the individual states, with no reliable way to hold the legislators who passed these arcane and sometimes contradictory rules to account, especially with little or no oversight.
Tiki torches and spear guns on the march on the state houses and the personal homes of the most egregious of the legislators.
Maybe, maybe not. But when the SCOTUS gets involved, they have no alternative than to invalidate ALL states elections BECAUSE of the actions of the few.
Then, it goes to the state legislatures to determine the election.
“Disenfranchised” — we’re not hearing that word much, are we?
Yet it is a favorite D’rat word to use against voter ID, honest voter registration and registered voter role clean-up. D’rats know that for them, “disenfranchised voters” means cheaters not allowed to cheat.
But this election’s Trump voters actually ARE being disenfranchised.
Yet, our GOP peeps and MEM are not proclaiming “DISENFRANCHISED VOTERS!”
We MUST.
Cat owner?
Cat D-owner is more like it!
If they ask for 792,000 ballots to get the attention of the court. The Judge reviews and sayes “I can’t throw out all these ballots...but maybe Ican throw out X number of verified fraudulant ballots which will hopefully be enough to kick the state into the Trump collumn. OR, it gets the attention of the legislature that there is massive fraud and maybe they need to seat the Trump electors rather than the electors for cheatem Joe.
(Catastrophe...A downturning!)
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