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(Reuters) – Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Thursday refused to accept a case by President Donald Trump’s campaign challenging the results of the state’s Nov.3 presidential election, the latest in a series losses suffered by the campaign.
Trump’s team submitted the petition, which challenged the Wisconsin election results and sought to invalidate 221,323 absentee ballots, directly to the state’s superior court on Tuesday.
President-elect Joe Biden won the most votes in Wisconsin, beating Trump by about 20,000 votes, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The state certified Biden as the winner on Monday.
Trump has refused to grant the election and has repeatedly continued his unsuccessful legal challenges. He has claimed, without any evidence, that the election was rigged and marred by widespread fraud.
The Wisconsin superior court, denying the petition, said the parties could file a case in a lower court. It was not immediately clear whether the Trump campaign would.
The petition alleged that Wisconsin election officials were ordered to fill in missing information on the ballot envelopes, cast absentee ballots without receiving requests, and allowed individuals to improperly claim “confined” absentee voting status.
The petition also alleges that events held by election officials in the city of Madison where ballots were collected and verified by officials at city parks, not at polling stations, were against state law.
(Information from Makini Brice in Washington; Additional information from Maria Caspani in New York; Editing by Noeleen Walder and Alistair Bell)
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