MILWAUKEE, WI (METRO) – President Trump’s second election lawsuit in Wisconsin takes aim at voter ID laws, ballot drop boxes, and the way votes were counted during Milwaukee County’s recount.
The president’s lawyers filed the suit in federal court in Milwaukee yesterday (WED), and Green Bay’s mayor and city clerk are among the defendants.
The lawsuit argues, in part, that absentee ballot drop boxes, which were set up in Green Bay and other large Wisconsin cities were illegal.
Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, along with the mayors of Milwaukee, Madison, Kenosha and Racine, issued a joint call for people to vote early in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 3 election. The cities also accepted more than $6 million in grants from the Center for Tech and Public life. The Trump lawsuit notes that Green Bay used some of that money to set up ballot drop boxes.
This lawsuit is separate from the one the president filed on Tuesday that asks a judge to toss out over 200-thousand votes in the state.
Meanwhile, President-elect Joe Biden and the D-N-C are asking the State Supreme Court to let them argue in the Trump Campaign’s challenge to the state’s election.
Biden says that the Trump lawsuit represents a very real danger to the state electors that ought to be casting votes for him later this month after he won the state’s 10 electoral votes.
The Court has not yet scheduled a hearing for the lawsuit.
