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US President Donald Trump’s campaign seeks to request a partial recount in the US state of Wisconsin, which his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, is expected to win by a margin of up to 20,000 votes.
Before the deadline for progress, the Trump campaign said it wanted a recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties, citing irregularities in the first count.
Wisconsin officials said they received $ 3 million to cover the cost of the recount.
It is estimated that a nationwide vote recount could cost the US president’s election campaign about $ 7.9 billion.
Trump still refuses to admit the validity of the US presidential election results and continues to make unsubstantiated accusations that point to “widespread fraud” in the voting results.
The Trump campaign has filed a large number of lawsuits to challenge election results in several major U.S. states, despite what U.S. election officials confirm that there is no evidence of wrongdoing that marred the large-scale election process in the country.
The final result of the presidential elections in the United States is expected to record the victory of US President-elect Joe Biden in the popular vote, 5.6 million votes more than President Trump, or up to 3.6 percent of the total of votes, which is the prevailing expectation in the headlines today despite continued counting. Some sounds.
Biden won 306 votes to Trump’s 232.
President Donald Trump must stay in office for a second term until results in at least three states turn in his favor, which is unprecedented in American history. The recount continues in Georgia, with Biden leading the way with nearly 14,000 votes.
Wisconsin law gives President Trump the right to request a recount as long as the difference between him and Biden is more than 0.25 percent and less than 1.00 percent. Still, the Trump campaign should agree to pay the cost of the recount.
In its request for a Wisconsin recount, the Trump campaign claimed that the vote-by-mail was changed and its results were published incorrectly. The US president’s campaign also claimed that the voting process witnessed violations of voter identity laws.
Milwaukee and Dane counties are notoriously Democratic.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Wayne and Milwaukee counties account for more than one-third of the votes Biden received in Wisconsin.
Biden won 317,270 votes in Milwaukee County compared to 134,357 for Trump, while Biden’s lead was further widened in Dane County, with the Democratic candidate gaining 260,185 votes to 78,800 for Trump.
“Cost of counting votes”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said the cost of a nationwide recount could be as much as $ 7.9 million to be reimbursed by a candidate campaign that requests an advance recount before the second round begins.
Elections Commission Chair Megan Wolf said the cost estimates take into account the need for large spaces to allow for popular follow-up, social distancing and other costs necessary for a recount, such as securing the entire process.
Trump’s campaign move comes a day after the US president decided to fire the chief cybersecurity official after the US official objected to the president’s election fraud allegations.
Trump said he had “fired Chris Krebs, director of the Agency for Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security for making completely inaccurate statements about the fairness of the elections.”
Cripps also angered the White House over an agency website that exposed misinformation about the US presidential election that President Trump himself inflated.
A few hours before his firing, Krebs posted a tweet on his social media account that apparently pointed to accusations by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in which he indicated that several states had operated the voting machines in a way that favored Biden.
In his tweet, the ousted president told the US agency: “With regard to allegations of electronic fraud in electoral systems, 59 electoral security experts agreed that ‘all the cases we reviewed were not based on evidence or are not technically logical “.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration faces a December 8 deadline to resolve all election-related disputes. The official election results will also be released during the American Electoral College meeting on the 14th of next month.
President Trump’s refusal to acknowledge defeat in the election and begin the transition process infuriated Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders.
Biden warned of the lack of coordination between his team and the current US administration regarding the handling of the Corona virus, saying that “people can die if power is not handed over.”
