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A Wisconsin judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by outgoing US President Donald Trump calling for the invalidation of thousands of votes sent by mail to cancel his loss to Democrat Joe Biden.
"The election rules and guidelines were followed during the recount and there is no evidence to support Trump's allegations of wrongdoing," Judge Stephen Simanic was quoted by the Associated Press as saying, adding that the court did everything to ensure that the will of the voters prevailed.
Trump wanted to exclude the absentee votes as he said, “There was no appropriate request written on the absentee ballot papers,” calling for in the lawsuit to exclude more than 221,000 votes in Democratic strongholds in Dean and Milwauk counties, while Trump did not contest any ballot papers in the counties he won .
For his part, Trump's lawyer Jim Tropis said that employees in Milwaukee and Dean counties were wrong to rely on the Wisconsin Election Commission directives regarding absentee balloting and that the directives, some of which have been in place for years or have been modified in response to the Coronavirus pandemic to facilitate the indefinite casting of their votes, contradict With state law.
On the other hand, Biden's lawyer, John Devani, said that everyone who voted in the presidential election did so "in full compliance with the laws that were in effect at the time of the election" and there is no evidence of fraud or illegal activity, adding that Trump "sarcastically" targeted the ballot papers that were cast. In most urban and non-white Wisconsin counties in order to exclude them.
A federal judge appointed by Trump in Wisconsin said yesterday that Trump's lawsuit was "unbelievable and very strange" and that a request to annul the results would be "the most important ruling in the history of this court or federal court."
The Wisconsin Supreme Court had previously refused to hear Trump's case before it passed before the lower courts.
Trump is still insisting on refusing to admit his defeat in the presidential elections to his Democratic opponent Joe Biden, and he repeated yesterday in a tweet on his claim that he “won,” prompting the site’s management to mark the tweet with a blue written notice in which it said “Official sources described these elections in a way. Different".
