Campaign tries to invalidate thousands of votes
Rosalind S. Helderman and Dan Simmons
November 22, 2020 at 2:28 p.m. EST
... As a recount began on Friday in Dane and Milwaukee counties — home to the cities of Madison and Milwaukee — Trump lawyers argued that officials should not merely retabulate all the votes cast in the Nov. 3 election to reconfirm they’d been counted properly.
Instead, they argued that large batches of ballots had been improperly accepted and counted in the first place. In both Dane and Milwaukee, they sought to disqualify all absentee ballots that had been cast before Election Day in person, rather than by mail ...
Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley said in an interview last week that he believed the Trump campaign’s decision to target for a recount only two counties — including Milwaukee, which has a large Black population — was no coincidence ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-recount-trump-campaign/2020/11/22/7c971746-2b5d-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html
