Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules Trump Election Challenge ‘Unreasonable … Meritless’

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court was critical of the Trump campaign’s legal challenge on Monday, saying the president should have raised concerns prior to the election not after it was over.

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Biden won the state by more than 20,000 votes. The votes cast in Dane and Milwaukee Counties where the campaign was seeking to disqualify ballots, exceed more than 28,000.

Trump’s lawyers had argued that all in-person absentee votes in Dane and Milwaukee Counties were cast without the required application. But the court dismissed the campaign’s logic, noting that «both counties did use an application form created, approved, and disseminated by the chief Wisconsin elections agency. Further, the judges noted that the form in question, known as EL-122, «was created in 2010 in an effort to streamline paperwork following the 2008 election, and has been available and in use ever since.

The justices were also critical of the Trump campaign’s delay in raising objections only after the election.

«Waiting until after an election to challenge the sufficiency of a form application in use statewide for at least a decade is plainly unreasonable, Hagedorn wrote.

Shortly after the ruling was released, Wisconsin cast its 10 electoral college votes for President-elect Joe Biden.