WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — The Republican Party of Marathon County has issued a non-binding resolution calling on lawmakers from the area to support electors who will vote for President Trump when the Electoral College meets ahead of inauguration day.
Spokesman Kevin Hermening says the resolution sent to Pat Snyder, John Spiros, and Jerry Piotrowski along with other statewide Republican leaders is a sign that the party still supports the current President and his legal fight against the election results, which currently show challenger Joe Biden as the winner.
“We are calling for only the legally-cast votes to be counted,” said Hermening. “The voters of Marathon County overwhelmingly, by a margin of about 17%, in support of Donald Trump for re-election. The Republican Party of Marathon County strongly believes that our votes have been disenfranchised by the irregularities and illegalities that occurred in other parts of the state.”
The statement specifically refers to claims of absentee ballot envelopes with errors that were fixed by municipal clerks and a sharp increase in the number of voters who claimed to be “indefinitely confined.”
“If you are claiming that you are indefinitely confined, it means that you aren’t leaving your home. It means you don’t have the ability to actually provide a photo ID. Given that so many of those ballots have been discovered [while investigating the election results], we are calling on our elected officials to not go along with the [certified results.]”
Additionally, the resolution calls into question ballots that were submitted as part of “Democracy in the Park” events in Dane County.
Despite the claims, the state’s election commission says they are unaware of any issues with the 2020 election and have stood behind the state’s vote totals, which show Biden winning by around 20,000 votes. Those numbers were slightly adjusted in favor of Biden after Trump-sponsored recounts in Milwaukee and Dane Counties.
Election officials added that those recounts did not turn up any irregularities.
Hermening says he knows that it’s extremely uncommon for a state’s electors to go against the popular vote in their state, but he does want to see how numerous lawsuits play out before admitting defeat.
That includes a court case that’s currently playing out in the Eastern District of Wisconsin that was put forward by the Republican Party. Hermening also cited a case recently filed by Texas and nearly 20 other states against election irregularities in states like Wisconsin, Georgia, and Pennsylvania. in the US Supreme Court.
“We advocated for, supported, gave money to, and voted for the President on November 3rd and throughout the election cycle. We also recently [donated] to the legal defense fund that has been put forth since Election Day,” he added.
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