A recount of votes in the battleground state of Wisconsin has unearthed hundreds of uncounted and unopened absentee ballots in the battleground state.
The discovery of 386 ballots that were not counted on Election Day will do little to help the president close his deficit in the state; Trump is about 20,600 votes behind Democrat Joe Biden there, and his campaign has paid for a recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties.
The Associated Press reported the unopened ballots were found underneath already counted ballots in Milwaukee.
Trump's legal team has argued that tens of thousands of mail-in ballots in Milwaukee and Dane counties, the state's most Democratic areas, should be thrown out on the basis they should never have been counted, according to the AP. The report said the president's attorneys have "Sought to have ballots discarded where election clerks filled in missing address information on the certification envelope where the ballot is inserted; any absentee ballot where a voter declared themselves to be 'indefinitely confined' under the law; and any absentee ballot where there was not a written application on file."
Attorney Jim Troupis, who is assisting the Trump campaign with the Wisconsin recount, argued in favor of recounting the votes and also for enforcing absentee ballot laws in an interview with the AP. "The people of Wisconsin deserve to know whether their election processes worked in a legal and transparent way," Troupis said.
"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," he said.
Regardless of the recount, it appears the Wisconsin results will be headed to the courts at some point, as will the results in other states that relied heavily on mail-in ballots where many are alleged to be unverified and to have arrived after the election deadline.
https://www.westernjournal.com/hundreds-uncounted-ballots-discovered-wisconsin/
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