Wisconsin Republicans file emergency petition to delay vote certification
The Wisconsin GOP filed an emergency petition in the state supreme court on Tuesday to stop the final certification of election results, as two counties press forward with a recount. The Republicans, not affiliated with President Trump’s legal team, alleged that “private money sourced to Mark Zuckerberg” was used to “illegally circumvent absentee voting laws, including primarily one absentee voting law, which is the sole exception to Wisconsin’s photo ID law, to cast tens of thousands of illegal absentee ballots.” The GOP suit alleges that illegal votes exceed the number by which President-elect Joe Biden won the state, 20,608. The Trump campaign has paid $3 million for a recount of votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties, the state’s most