Wisconsin Supreme Court Denies Trump Election Challenge

On Thursday the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided against taking up a case brought to it by President Donald Trump’s campaign. The case challenged the November 3 presidential election results in the state of Wisconsin and the rejection is just the latest in a long line of losses the campaign has suffered since the election.

Trump’s legal team filed the petition to the highest court in the state on Tuesday, challenging Wisconsin’s election results and suggesting that they were influenced by mass voter fraud. The petition sought to invalidate over 220,000 absentee ballots, the majority of which were for the Democrats.

“We used to have what was called, election day. Now we have election days, weeks, and months, and lots of bad things happened during this ridiculous period of time, especially when you have to prove almost nothing to exercise our greatest privilege, the right to vote,” President Trump said during a speech last week addressing claims of voter fraud.

“As President, I have no higher duty than to defend the laws and the Constitution of the United States. That is why I am determined to protect our election system, which is now under coordinated assault and siege.”

President-elect Joe Biden won the popular vote in the state of Wisconsin over Trump by a margin of around 20,000 votes, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The state announced that they had certified Biden as the winner of the state on Monday, prompting a quick response from Trump and his legal team, who submitted proceedings to the Wisconsin Supreme Court a day later.

“For months, leading up to the Presidential election, we were warned that we should not declare a premature victory. We were told repeatedly that it would take weeks if not, months, to determine the winner, to count the absentee ballots and to verify the results,” Trump continued.

“My opponent was told to stay away from the election, don’t campaign. “We don’t need you. We’ve got it. This election is done.” In fact, they were acting like they already knew what the outcome was going to be. They had it covered and perhaps they did, very sadly for our country,” he said. “It was all very, very strange. Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner even while many key states were still being counted.”

Despite nearly all sources calling the election as a 306-232 Biden victory over Trump, the current president has refused to concede even a month after election day. Trump has constantly reiterated his pre-election assertions that mail-in voting was subject to mass fraud and with the help of his legal team has repeatedly continued to pursue unsuccessful court challenges.

“The constitutional process must be allowed to continue. We’re going to defend the honesty of the vote by ensuring that every legal ballot is counted and that no illegal ballot is counted,” Trump said last week. “This is not just about honoring the votes of 74 million Americans who voted for me, it’s about ensuring that Americans can have faith in this election and in all future elections.”

“Today I will detail some of the shocking irregularities, abuses and fraud that had been revealed in recent weeks but before laying out just a small portion of the evidence we have uncovered, and we have so much evidence, I want to explain the corrupt mail-in balloting scheme that Democrats systematically put into place that allowed voting to be altered, especially in swing states, which they had to win,” he added.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court said that Trump’s legal team could pursue the case in a lower court, but it is not yet clear whether they will choose to do so. The petition alleged that Wisconsin election officials were instructed to fill in missing information on ballot envelopes, allowed some to improperly claim ‘confined’ absentee voting status and issued absentee ballots without receiving applications.

It was also alleged by the petition that events held by election officials in Madison, in which ballots were collected and checked in car parks instead of polling stations, were against state law.

“They just didn’t know that it was going to be that tough, because we were leading in every swing state by so much, far greater than they ever thought possible. While it has long been understood that the Democrat political machine engages in voter fraud from Detroit to Philadelphia, to Milwaukee, Atlanta, so many other places,” he said.

“What changed this year was the Democrat party’s relentless push to print and mail out tens of millions of ballots sent to unknown recipients with virtually no safeguards of any kind. This allowed fraud and abuse to occur in a scale never seen before. Using the pandemic as a pretext, Democrat politicians and judges drastically changed election procedures just months, and in some cases, weeks before the election on the 3rd of November.”