The Trump campaign's new lawsuit would invalidate 221,000 Wisconsin ballots — including votes cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic
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Jacob Shamsian
Dec 2, 2020, 03:09 IST
President Donald Trump arrives to a campaign rally at Green Bay Austin Straubel International Airport in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on October 30, 2020.MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images
President Donald Trump's campaign filed a new lawsuit in Wisconsin seeking to invalidate 221,000 votes.
Wisconsin already confirmed its electoral votes, declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner.
The lawsuit would invalidate the vote of Jim Troupis, the campaign's top election lawyer in the state, who wrote the lawsuit.
It also challenges votes cast by people who were concerned about leaving their home because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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President Donald Trump's campaign has filed yet another election lawsuit, this time trying to invalidate votes in Wisconsin.
Trump's campaign argues that the "Indefinitely Confined" designation has been used to circumvent state laws about photo ID requirements.
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The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it's up to voters themselves to decide whether they wanted to use the "Indefinitely Confined" ballot option and provides extensive guidance for people using those ballots but who don't have a valid photo ID available. Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin's top election official, told a local ABC News affiliate that voters could sign an absentee certificate and have a witness sign their absentee ballot instead of using a photo ID.
Senior citizens and other people who have used the ballot designation have objected to having their votes disqualified.
"We're beyond senior. We're really old. My husband just turned 80 and I'm 78. So there was no way we were going to vote in person," Wisconsin resident Tee Gee Levy told the Journal Sentinel. "It's not justified at all. I'm surprised there are attorneys still going after it. I wish more people would speak out."
In addition to disqualifying some "Indefinitely Confined" ballots and all "In-Person Absentee" ballots, the lawsuit would cancel all ballots where witnesses did not write down their addresses, as well as ballots given to election officials at "Democracy in the Park" events in September and October.
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