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MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) – Wisconsin’s partial presidential recount entered its fourth day on Monday, with very little change in vote totals, with lawyers for President Donald Trump appearing to focus on a court challenge to launch dozens thousands of ballots, including the one thrown out by a campaign lawyer.
Democrat Joe Biden won the state by about 20,600 votes and his margin in Milwaukee and Dane counties was about 2 to 1. These are the only countries where Trump has paid to have a recount.
Trump’s lawyers have objected to counting all mail-in ballots where voters identified themselves as “indefinitely confined”; when the information on the certification envelope is in two different ink colors, indicating that a poll worker may have helped fill it out; and when there is no separate record indicating that this has been requested, including all in-person postal ballots.
All of those ballots were counted in the recount, but could be targeted in a Trump court challenge.
Rejecting the ballots as requested by the Trump campaign would cause Trump’s Wisconsin attorney Jim Troupis to not count his ballot, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Troupis, a former Dane County judge, voted early using the option of in-person absence from the state with his wife. They were both on exhibits that Troupis presented to the Dane County Solicitors Council on Sunday, which the Trump campaign said had voted illegally.
Troupis did not immediately respond to a text message Monday asking for comment.
Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell said on Monday that the recount was nearly 25% done in that county, with nearly 83,000 of the more than 345,000 ballots being recounted. Those who have been recounted so far in both counties have shown changes of just a handful of votes from what was reported on election night.
“It seems to be picking up,” McDonell said of the recount. “We’re a little behind schedule, but not a lot late.”
Milwaukee County had hoped to be finished by Wednesday, but due to delays caused by objections raised by Trump supporters work is expected to move closer to the December 1 completion deadline.
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