Wisconsin officials: Trump observers obstructing recount
Source: AP
By MICHAEL TARM
MILWAUKEE (AP) Election officials in Wisconsins largest county accused observers for President Donald Trump on Saturday of seeking to obstruct a recount of the presidential results, in some instances by objecting to every ballot tabulators pulled to count.
Trump requested the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both heavily liberal, in hopes of undoing Democrat Joe Bidens victory by about 20,600 votes. With no precedent for a recount reversing such a large margin, Trumps strategy is widely seen as aimed at an eventual court challenge, part of a push in key states to undo his election loss.
A steady stream of Republican complaints in Milwaukee was putting the recount far behind schedule, county clerk George Christenson said. He said many Trump observers were breaking rules by constantly interrupting vote counters with questions and comments.
Thats unacceptable, he said. He said some of the Trump observers clearly dont know what they are doing.
Election workers, right, verify ballots as recount observers, left, watch during a Milwaukee hand recount of presidential votes at the Wisconsin Center, Friday, Nov. 20, 2020, in Milwaukee. The recount of the presidential election in Wisconsins two most heavily Democratic counties began Friday with President Donald Trumps campaign seeking to discard tens of thousands of absentee ballots that it alleged should not have been counted. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
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beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Merlot
(9,696 posts)one of the observers doesn't know how to wear a mask.
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)delay tactics aint going to delay anything
msongs
(67,459 posts)Yup!
ZZenith
(4,130 posts)Id bet my house its the idiot wearing his mask wrong.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Moran.
Lock them up!
bamagal62
(3,270 posts)marble falls
(57,343 posts)FarPoint
(12,460 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Most Trump cultists don't realize that the nose and mouth are connected. They believe there's two separate tubes in the human body; one in the nose for breathing, and one in the mouth for eating/swallowing bullshit. COVID-19 germs can only be transmitted from the bullshit ingestion tube, hence their proclivity for covering only their mouths. "Some people have said" that you can't get COVID from someone's nose.
This is meant as sarcasm, but I wonder how many cult members actually believe this?
Raven123
(4,878 posts)bullimiami
(13,105 posts)TeamPooka
(24,262 posts)Cetacea
(7,367 posts)And if you politely ask one to cover his/her nose they'll tell you that is IS covered...
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)LEAVE!
Blue Owl
(50,523 posts)There needs to be a rule for these idiots to weed out the morons -- if they have, say, more than 12 challenges thrown out, then clearly they have no idea what they're doing or what constitutes and "illegal" ballot, and should be dismissed from their role as an observer. This is fucking ridiculous.
onenote
(42,779 posts)She confirmed that the Trump observers are trying to gum up the works with frivolous objections.
bluestarone
(17,062 posts)Because i have no idea of how this should be handled.
Marthe48
(17,045 posts)And check out the idiot in the yellow jacket, useless masking. Gdi.
William769
(55,148 posts)Trust me, they know what they are doing.
Yep, they ain't there to literally observe what's going. Just making Boss Don happy...
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)how much time are you willing to spend in prison for trump?
TheRealNorth
(9,500 posts)These fuckers are trying abrogate the civil liberties of citizens in Milwaukee and Dane County. All that needs to be done is let some of the people that they objected to be notified.... put them in front of a judge and have them try to explain why those voters don't have a right to a vote.
This won't stop until people are locked up.
Initech
(100,107 posts)IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)it stops. The legal system does have a way to deal with obstructionists. They need to figure this out quickly.
Dickster
(103 posts)I was a trained election observer during the Franken-Coleman recount in 2008 in a rural Minnesota county.The republican observers claimed that every ballot that had a write in was a marked ballot. There were a bunch of open school board races throughout the county, so there were over 400 ballots with write ins. There were three election officials and one Democratic and one Republican observer that all had to agree for each ballot to be counted. The republicans refused to agree on any ballot with a write-iin, so we sent over 400 ballots to the state that we couldnt agree on. A judge threw it back to the county level and said count them. After over 8000 ballots we looked, there was only one that we couldnt determine the intent of the voter.
LiberalFighter
(51,151 posts)The prepayment was based on cost if it was ran smoothly.
Talitha
(6,624 posts)There has to be a way to stop this crap!
IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)deal. No matter what type of criminal activity they are involved in.
louis-t
(23,302 posts)Yeah, I'm talking to you. Asshole.
sandensea
(21,677 posts)You'll recall that Rethug "observers" were doing the very thing during the FL recount in Dem-leaning counties - which made it impossible to meet the original court-mandated deadlines.
The rest, of course, is history.