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Poll workers process ballots in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Nov. 3 – Photo: REUTERS
The Reuters news agency on 11-18 quoted the Wisconsin Elections Commission as saying the agency would oversee the recount in Milwaukee and Dane counties after Trump paid a $ 3 million fee. This is less than the actual estimated cost of approximately $ 7.9 million.
The count will begin on November 19 (local time) and must be completed by December 1-12. According to the Associated Press, after the November 3 election, Democrat Joe Biden won more than 577,000 votes in the two counties compared to more than 213,000 votes for Trump. Across Wisconsin, Biden took the lead by about 20,000 votes.
In Dane, County Clerk Scott McDonell said the count is expected to take five days. However, McDonell said the results of the 2016 recount changed only a few hundred votes.
Meanwhile, the mayor of the city of Milwaukee, Mr. Tom Barrett, denied the allegations of electoral violation. “This is an attack on cities, minorities, places that have a tradition of Democrats. Don’t fool yourself into thinking this is wrong,” said Barrett, a Democrat. Father.
However, Wisconsin state attorney working on Trump’s campaign, Jim Troupis, said he could not believe the results in Dane and Milwaukee until the recount. “We will not know the actual results of the elections until only valid votes are counted,” Troupis said.
Nationally, the US media predicted that Biden would win with 306 electoral votes, more than 270 votes minimum to win, and surpassed Trump with 232 votes.
To turn the tables, Trump needs results in at least three major states with stiff competition. The president of the United States hopes that the manual counting of votes could change the results in Georgia, where Biden leads by 14,000 votes, and is demanding the results in the state of Michigan.
On November 18, Trump continued to issue a series of allegations of election violations. “In Detroit there are more votes than people. Nothing can be done to save this great deception. I won in Michigan,” the president of the United States wrote on Twitter.
According to Reuters, some 250,000 people voted in Detroit in the last election, which is equivalent to a third of the city’s population.
