The reasons why there will be a recount in Wisconsin and other states
Has this happened in Wisconsin
before?
We’re focusing on areas with exceptionally high Democratic turnout. This is an effort to better establish whether the election was legitimate.
Voter ID proponents and other conservative political groups have long struggled to produce hard evidence of mass voter fraud. But his group was using a call center to track down people who moved or were otherwise nominally inactive voters, asking them to confirm if they cast a ballot in order to detect possible identity theft. He said he is also cross-referencing databases to find voters that may have cast ballots in the wrong place, voted twice, or were deceased.
Wisconsin was always expected to take a
while to finish its count because, like Pennsylvania, election rules meant that
it could not process early ballots before election day.
Ballot deadlines were also put in place in Wisconsin, but by a federal judge rather than state authorities. The US Supreme Court last week rejected a request from Democrats to allow the extension to stand after an appeals court blocked it.
According to state legislation, in presidential elections the petition for the recount has to be filed by 5 p.m. “on the first business day following the day on which the commission receives the last statement from a county board of canvassers for the election following canvassing of all valid provisional ballots,” a.k.a. by 5 p.m. on the first business day after the final and full results are officially announced (as a reminder, at press time that has yet to happen; the AP calling the race does not mean that the final count is official). Election officials would then recount the votes in the state to ensure accuracy.