President Trump refocused on 2020 during his first major campaign event of 2022. “The evidence of a manipulated election is widespread,” he said. It appears Mr. Trump missed a 136-page conservative group from Wisconsin’s examination of “no indication of widespread voting fraud.”
That is one of the better summaries of what happened in 2020. It was published on December 7 by the Wisconsin Institute for Regulation and Liberty (WILL), a conservative news outlet that backed several of Mr. Trump’s ideas. In a case brought by WILL, a Wisconsin judge ruled last month that poll dropboxes are illegal.
Its 2020 report slams state election officials for breaking election rules. This legal blunder fueled voter distrust while putting ballots in dispute. But the stolen-election theory fails. A massive scam “would definitely have resulted in some detectable anomaly,” WILL adds. ” More likely, more eligible voters cast ballots for
Biden rather than Trump.
• Only 14.7% of Wisconsin voting machines were Dominion. In 2016, Trump got 57.2% of their votes, up from 55.7 in 2016.
•In Milwaukee, the number of absentee ballots cast on election nite was “in line with expectations.” Mr. Biden’s 85.7 percent is credible. Milwaukee County’s raw vote total rose just 4.4 percent from 2016 compared to the national growth of 10.2 percent. “There was no inexplicable “poll dump.”
• A manual recount of 20,000 votes from 20 wards in Milwaukee found “no evidence of fraudulent ballots.” A wide range of voters voted for Biden and a Republican for Congress, it said. 10.5 percent of Biden’s ballots went to GOP Rep. Glenn Grothman in Mequon wards.
Why In 2020, only 0.2 percent of Wisconsin absentee ballots were rejected in 2020, compared to 1.35 percent in 2016. This was a widespread trend, assisted by dropboxes. “Rejection charges have scarcely increased in sections of the state that voted for Biden,” says WILL.
•The state notified clerks of missing witness addresses. Not all jurisdictions did, and others did not. It examined 29,000 ballots in 29 wards. Most erroneous votes lacked a piece of the second address line, such as a metropolis, state, or ZIP code. The state law doesn’t specify how much “tackle” is necessary, so these ballots were probably valid anyway.
•The number of “indefinitely confined” voters increased by 199,000. But the election went on with “no clear assertion” on whether or not COVID was a household concern. County records show no relationship between incarceration and partisanship. Only 700 random, constrained voters came up. It is “dangerous” because genuine ballots cast by impersonated voters would be detected. Wisconsin has only four double votes.
• The state utilized contested dropboxes, and WILL claims numerous clerks failed to properly document the chain of possession. Dropboxes may have increased Mr. Biden’s turnout by 20,736. It won’t state that such voters were “ineligible or should have had their ballots rejected.”
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They will find “troubling” the $10 million spent on Wisconsin elections, mostly in five cities. Statistically, it may have increased Mr. Biden’s turnout by 8,000.
In his opinion, the election wasn’t “stolen.” “However, it was not safe.” Restoring faith in elections is one of its key proposals. Milwaukee’s balloting closes at midnight. Revise postal ballots to include “special spots” for witnesses to write their addresses. Draw a “confined voter”
The general lesson is to ebook elections. Will claims the number of ballots that “didn’t meet current legal requirements” “far surpassed Joe Biden’s margin.” The contradiction kills public faith.
But Trump didn’t raise hell until he lost. Then his team demanded that over 200,000 random ballots from two blue counties be thrown out, despite questionable procedures throughout. Good luck persuading judges to overturn a vote cast by a reliable Wisconsinite, let alone 28.4% of all ballots cast in Milwaukee County. In Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court overturned this selective remedy.
Maybe more details will come. Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Mr. Gableman, can assess the state’s 2020 election. To inform the next legislative session, Voss
“I need his report by the end of February,” he said recently.
This is the best description of the 2020 race so far: not safe, but not stolen, with suburban Republicans splitting tickets to beat Mr. Trump.
