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<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>'s campaign filed a new lawsuit in <keyword id="567797" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</keyword> seeking to invalidate 221,000 votes.</li><li>Wisconsin already confirmed its electoral votes, declaring President-elect Joe Biden the winner.</li><li>The lawsuit would invalidate the vote of <keyword id="10364475" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="jim-troupis">Jim Troupis</keyword>, the campaign's top election lawyer in the state, who wrote the lawsuit.</li><li>It also challenges votes cast by people who were concerned about leaving their home because of the coronavirus pandemic.</li></ul>President Donald Trump's campaign has filed yet another election lawsuit, this time trying to invalidate votes in Wisconsin.Wisconsin already <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/30/showdown-over-finalizing-wisconsins-presidential-results/6465419002/">certified its votes Monday</a>. President-elect Joe Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-paid-3m-for-wisconsin-recount-increased-bidens-victory-margin-2020-11">increased his margin of victory</a> in the state through a recount the Trump campaign requested, winning by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, filed to the Wisconsin state Supreme Court Tuesday, asks that the court force the state to exclude ballots it argues were out of compliance with election laws. It does not allege that any voter or election fraud took place in the state. It seeks to challenge <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/25/republicans-built-wisconsin-voting-system-trump-attacking/6411930002/">the legality of the voting system that has been built over the course of eight years by the Republican-controlled government</a>.If it's successful, the lawsuit would disqualify 221,000 votes, <a href="https://www.donaldjtrump.com/media/trump-campaign-files-lawsuit-in-wisconsin-to-restore-election-integrity/">the Trump campaign said in a statement</a>.That would include the vote of Jim Troupis, the Trump campaign's top election lawyer in Wisconsin, who filed the lawsuit."Wisconsin cannot allow the over three million legal ballots to be eroded by even a single illegal ballot," Troupis said in the statement.Troupis <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-wisconsin-says-his-absentee-ballot-illegal-2020-11">told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in November that he voted using an "In-Person Absentee Ballot,"</a> which the lawsuit says should not be counted. Troupis's wife also voted with that method, according to a document he filed with the Dane County Board of Canvassers and <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/22/attorney-heading-up-trump-recount-wants-throw-out-his-own-vote/6382647002/">obtained by the Journal Sentinel</a>.<h2>Trump's lawsuit would disqualify votes cast by people concerned about leaving their homes because of COVID-19</h2>The lawsuit also takes aim at "Indefinitely Confined Absentee Ballots," <a href="https://www.maciverinstitute.com/2020/10/a-quarter-million-wisconsin-voters-claim-to-be-indefinitely-confined/">used by nearly 250,000 voters in the November election</a>.The voting method has historically been used by people with disabilities, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/01/trump-sues-try-reverse-wisconsins-election-results/6475902002/">according to the Journal Sentinel</a>. But it was widely adopted this year by voters concerned about leaving their homes because of the coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://www.dhs.wisconsin.gov/covid-19/deaths.htm#cumulative">which has killed more than 3,400 people in the state so far</a>.Trump's campaign argues that the "Indefinitely Confined" designation has been used to circumvent state laws about photo ID requirements.<div type="image" title="wisconsin recount" height="1111" width="2223" msid="79520577" hostid="261"></div>The Wisconsin Elections Commission said it's up to voters themselves to decide whether they wanted to use the "Indefinitely Confined" ballot option and <a href="https://elections.wi.gov/node/6788">provides extensive guidance</a> for people using those ballots but who don't have a valid photo ID available. Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin's top election official, <a href="https://wkow.com/2020/11/13/concerns-over-indefinitely-confined-voting-law-as-thousands-use-the-option-due-to-covid-19/">told a local ABC News affiliate</a> that voters could sign an absentee certificate and have a witness sign their absentee ballot instead of using a photo ID.Senior citizens and other people who have used the ballot designation have objected to having their votes disqualified."We're beyond senior. We're really old. My husband just turned 80 and I'm 78. So there was no way we were going to vote in person," <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/27/trump-wants-throw-out-ballots-238-000-wisconsin-voters/6437897002/">Wisconsin resident Tee Gee Levy told the Journal Sentinel</a>. "It's not justified at all. I'm surprised there are attorneys still going after it. I wish more people would speak out."In addition to disqualifying some "Indefinitely Confined" ballots and all "In-Person Absentee" ballots, the lawsuit would cancel all ballots where witnesses did not write down their addresses, as well as ballots given to election officials at "Democracy in the Park" events in September and October.The Wisconsin Supreme Court has not yet decided whether to hear the case, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-wisconsin/trump-campaign-challenges-election-results-in-wisconsin-supreme-court-idUSKBN28B5KA">a spokesperson for the court told Reuters</a>.Trump and his allies have filed more than two dozen lawsuits challenging election results. <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">None of them have succeeded</a>.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">Trump and his allies have won zero out at least 26 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-election-lawsuit-witness-vote-problems-edison-county-2020-12">A witness in Trump ally Sidney Powell's lawsuits says the voting results in 'Edison County' indicate fraud. No such place exists.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/can-rudy-giuliani-be-disbarred-election-lawsuits-trump-ukraine-investigation-2020-11">Will Rudy Giuliani be disbarred? Probably not for Trump's election lawsuits, experts say.</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-wisconsin-says-his-absentee-ballot-illegal-2020-11">Trump's top election lawyer in Wisconsin says he and his wife voted illegally in the campaign's latest legal argument</a></li></ul>

The Trump campaign's new lawsuit would invalidate 221,000 Wisconsin ballots — including votes cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Jim Troupis, President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword>'s top campaign lawyer in <keyword id="567797" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</keyword>, said he voted illegally.</li><li>He asked the Dane County Board of Canvassers to invalidate all absentee ballots returned in person, a method the state offered for returning ballots.</li><li>Troupis and his wife both voted in-person absentee, and he even included their names on an exhibit he gave to the board.</li><li>The Trump campaign has so far won none of the <keyword id="10257313" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="Election-lawsuits">election lawsuits</keyword> it has brought since President-elect Joe Biden won.</li></ul>President Donald Trump's top campaign lawyer in Wisconsin is trying to throw out his own vote, arguing that it was illegal.The attorney, Jim Troupis, asked the Dane County Board of Canvassers to invalidate all absentee ballots that were cast in person, <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/11/22/attorney-heading-up-trump-recount-wants-throw-out-his-own-vote/6382647002/">according to documents obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>.Troupis and his wife both voted that way. Their names were even on exhibits he submitted to the board, according to the Journal Sentinel."I'm sure I'm on that list," he told the <keyword id="6355005" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="news">news</keyword> outlet.The instructions on the absentee ballots mailed to voters in Wisconsin told residents they could mail them back with a witness signature or <a href="https://elections.wi.gov/voters/absentee">return them to their municipal clerk's office</a> in person before Election Day. If voters used the latter method to cast their ballot, they also had to <a href="https://myvote.wi.gov/en-us/PhotoIDRequired">show photo ID</a>.Troupis, a former Dane County judge, retired from his own law practice in 2013 but appeared to return to law to represent the Trump campaign. His brother, Chris Troupis, is also representing the Trump campaign, <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/politics/wisconsin-trump-campaign-lawyer-trying-to-throw-out-his-own-vote/">according to Law &amp; Crime</a>. Jim Troupis didn't immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.The Trump campaign requested <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-presidential-recount-in-4th-day-with-few-changes-2020-11">recounts</a> in Dane and Milwaukee counties after President-elect Joe Biden <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-election-results">won the state by more than 20,000 votes</a>. The recounts, which are <a href="https://madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/the-wisconsin-presidential-recount-has-begun-heres-how-the-process-works/article_0a6e6377-ebf8-52e2-859e-230ef27727bc.html">expected to end before the December 1 ballot-certification deadline</a>, have delayed vote certification, and the Trump campaign <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-recount-trump-campaign/2020/11/22/7c971746-2b5d-11eb-92b7-6ef17b3fe3b4_story.html">is using that delay to raise new challenges seeking to invalidate votes</a>.The campaign has also asked the Dane County Board of Canvassers to invalidate in-person early ballots, ballots cast by people who said they were indefinitely confined, absentee ballots where clerks filled out part of the witness form, and mail-in ballots without a written application that can be immediately tracked down, according to the Journal Sentinel.Trump and his allies have experienced resounding losses in court so far, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">with zero wins out of 22 lawsuits filed</a>.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">Trump and his allies have won zero out of the 22 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/federal-judge-brann-rejects-trump-campaign-lawsuit-pennsylvania-2020-11">A federal judge threw out a major Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania, issuing a blistering opinion refusing to disenfranchise 7 million voters</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/supreme-court-hear-trump-election-lawsuits-time-running-out-2020-11">The Supreme Court is running the clock on Trump's election lawsuits, experts say</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-invalidate-election-results-lawsuits-differ-from-tweets-2020-11">Trump keeps making arguments about the election on Twitter that he won't make in court</a></li></ul>

Trump's top election lawyer in Wisconsin says he and his wife voted illegally in the campaign's latest legal argument

<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="6354862" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="trump">Trump</keyword>'s attorney presented a lawsuit to the <keyword id="567797" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</keyword> Supreme Court that seeks to throw out more than 221,000 absentee ballots in two Wisconsin counties.</li><li>The two counties targeted have the highest Black population in Wisconsin.</li><li>A judge told Trump's lawyer that the case "smacks of racism."</li><li>No judgement was made at the end of the hearing but it's unlikely the court would support it, according to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wisconsin-state-supreme-court-trump-lawsuit-racism_n_5fd54981c5b6218b42e99e88">HuffPost</a>.</li><li>On the same day, a Trump-appointed federal judge threw out another of the president's lawsuits.</li></ul>On Saturday, a judge at the Wisconsin Supreme Court declared that a Trump lawsuit put before them was a blatant attempt to disenfranchise voters of color.The lawsuit, pursued by Trump's attorney Jim Troupis, seeks to throw out more than 221,000 absentee ballots in two Wisconsin counties that Joe Biden won in the presidential election.Milwaukee and Dane, the areas targeted in the lawsuit, are among the most diverse in all of Wisconsin. <a href="https://cdn.apl.wisc.edu/publications/2010_census_chartbook_wi.pdf">Most Black Wisconsinites live in</a> or around those two counties.Justice Rebecca Dalett noted that they were the "most urban, nonwhite, largest counties" in the state that "voted overwhelmingly for Joe Biden."Biden won Wisconsin by over 20,000 votes and a margin of 0.6%.Speaking in the <a href="https://wiseye.org/category/supreme-court/">Wisconsin Supreme Court</a>, Justice Jill Karofsky argued that Milwaukee and Dane were presumably "targeted because of their diverse populations, because they're urban, I presume, because they vote Democratic."She continued: "This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of racism."Karofsky added: "I do not know how you can come before this court and possibly ask for a remedy that is unheard of in US history." At another point in the hearing, the judge said: "What you want is for us to overturn this election so that your king can stay in power. That is so un-American."Karofsky, a liberal justice, asked Troupis to provide a single example of fraud in Wisconsin. The lawyer was unable to do so, according to <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/wisconsin-state-supreme-court-trump-lawsuit-racism_n_5fd54981c5b6218b42e99e88?ri18n=true">HuffPost</a>.Conservative justices also questioned how it could be just to disqualify ballots in only two counties, the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-madison-wisconsin-e911b00569c4a3214691ecb7b84e8330">AP reports</a>. At the end of the hearing, which lasted 90 minutes, no decision was officially reached. It seems unlikely that the court will support the lawsuit, HuffPost says.On the same day, a federal judge threw out another Trump lawsuit.Judge Brett Ludwig, who was appointed by Trump, threw out a lawsuit that requested the court order Wisconsin's Republican-controlled legislature to declare their election void results.Ludwig dismissed the case as "incredible and "extraordinary," according to a 23-page ruling seen by legal news website <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/another-trump-appointed-judge-rejects-another-one-of-the-presidents-meritless-post-election-lawsuits/">Law &amp; Crime</a>.

Trump's legal attempt to throw out votes in Wisconsin's most diverse counties 'smacks of racism,' judge says

<ul class="summary-list"><li>President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> lost yet another election lawsuit Friday, this time in <keyword id="567797" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Wisconsin">Wisconsin</keyword>.</li><li>The lawsuit sought to invalidate 221,000 votes in Milwaukee and Dane counties, arguing that election laws weren't properly followed in their recounts.</li><li>Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek said they properly followed the laws, which permitted more people than usual to vote by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic.</li><li>The case had drawn some attention because <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-wisconsin-says-his-absentee-ballot-illegal-2020-11">Trump's top lawyer in the case said he and his wife voted using an illegal method</a>.</li></ul>A judge in Wisconsin on Friday threw out <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wisconsin-lawsuit-invalidate-mail-ballots-covid-19-lawyer-2020-12">President Donald Trump's attempt to invalidate 221,000 votes</a> in the state, affirming that Trump lost and that President-elect <keyword id="99719" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Joe-Biden">Joe Biden</keyword> will receive the state's 10 electoral votes.The lawsuit sought to invalidate votes cast in Milwaukee and Dane counties, where Trump requested a recount.After he lost the recount - <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-wisconsin/recount-in-wisconsin-county-demanded-by-trump-increases-bidens-margin-idUKKBN28802A">and increased his loss margin</a> - Trump sued the counties to dispute all the votes, arguing that Wisconsin's election laws weren't properly followed.Reserve Judge Stephen Simanek said on Friday that the counties properly followed the law and praised them for their transparency in conducting the recount."The real dispute here is whether or not there were erroneous interpretations of law used in the recount involved in whether the ballots should be counted or not counted," Simanek said, adding that "the court is satisfied" that Wisconsin correctly interpreted those laws.Simanek issued the ruling immediately after a hearing with lawyers for Trump and for Dane and Milwaukee counties. It also included lawyers representing Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, whom Trump sued personally even though they have no involvement in Wisconsin's election administration.The judge said he was acting quickly because Wisconsin was the only state to <a href="https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/12/08/wisconsin-only-state-miss-election-safe-harbor-deadline/6496378002/">miss the "safe harbor" deadline</a> before the Electoral College formalizes Biden's victory on Monday."The bottom line here is that the court should do everything to ensure the will of the voters prevails," Simanek said.<h2>Trump's lawyers argued it shouldn't be so easy to vote in a pandemic</h2>The lawsuit argued that various Wisconsin election rules were unconstitutional or flew in the face of the state's election laws. Trump sued only counties where he lost, even though other counties may have followed the same rules.Among the issues, Trump's attorneys argued, was that counties made it too easy to vote in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/us-map">which has so far killed more than 292,000 people in the United States</a>.<div type="image" title="FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a speech following a tour of Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin, U.S., June 25, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria" height="1598" width="2130" msid="79684861" hostid="261"></div>About 250,000 voters in the state <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wisconsin-lawsuit-invalidate-mail-ballots-covid-19-lawyer-2020-12">gave themselves</a> an "indefinitely confined" designation, which allowed them to vote absentee. Trump's lawyers argued the designation was unfairly used to circumvent rules about absentee ballots."To review the ID requirement is no basis for throwing out the votes," Simanek said in his oral ruling. "It's far more likely that because of the pandemic, people would be concerned to not go out in public, that people didn't want to stand in a polling place for hours to cast a ballot. I can't really strike down those votes to support an inference that is not supported in fact."Simanek also pointed out that the rules surrounding the "indefinitely confined" status had been on the books for more than 30 years. Trump's lawsuits <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-lawsuits-filed-weeks-years-after-alleged-problems-judges-2020-12">have often challenged election rules or laws</a> that were in place well before the <keyword id="7600569" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-election">2020 election</keyword>, but the lawsuits were brought weeks after voting ended.This case also drew some notoriety because Jim Troupis, the top lawyer arguing the case on behalf of Trump, said <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-wisconsin-says-his-absentee-ballot-illegal-2020-11">he and his wife voted using methods he said were illegal</a>.Troupis said in court on Friday that he would appeal the ruling.Trump has another ongoing lawsuit in Wisconsin that was heard in federal court earlier this week. A ruling in that case is expected in the next few days.Of the 38 lawsuits brought by him and his allies, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">zero have resulted in a victory</a>.This article has been updated.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-wisconsin-lawsuit-invalidate-mail-ballots-covid-19-lawyer-2020-12">The Trump campaign's new lawsuit would invalidate 221,000 Wisconsin ballots - including votes cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawyer-wisconsin-says-his-absentee-ballot-illegal-2020-11">Trump's top election lawyer in Wisconsin says he and his wife voted illegally in the campaign's latest legal argument</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">Trump and his allies have won zero out of at least 38 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-lawsuits-filed-weeks-years-after-alleged-problems-judges-2020-12">Judges striking down and dismissing Trump's election lawsuits keep asking: Why'd you wait so long?</a></li></ul>

A judge just struck down Trump's attempt to throw out 221,000 votes in Wisconsin - including votes cast by mail because of the pandemic

<ul class="summary-list"><li>The election lawsuits filed by President Donald Trump and his allies repeatedly went after places where disproportionate numbers of Black voters live.</li><li>In lawsuit documents and in rhetoric, Trump went after diverse cities in battleground states. He didn't challenge other areas that voted by the same rules.</li><li>Republicans have a history of making it harder for people of color to vote, and have a disproportionately white base compared to the Democratic Party and country as a whole.</li></ul>In a hearing at the Wisconsin Supreme Court over one of President Donald Trump's election lawsuits, Justice Jill Karofsky made <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/wisconsin-trump-election-fraud-lawsuit-smacks-of-racism-judge-says-2020-12">a comment that quickly went viral</a>.Addressing Jim Troupis, the lawyer representing the Trump campaign's quest to invalidate more than 220,000 votes in two of the state's 72 counties, Karofsky said he targeted Milwaukee and Dane counties, "because of their diverse populations, because they're urban.""This lawsuit, Mr. Troupis, smacks of <keyword id="44060" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Racism">racism</keyword>," Karofsky said Saturday.It was an acknowledgment by a judge of what has long been evident: Trump's lawsuits have tried to throw out votes in counties where Black voters live, even as the votes in those counties were handled in the same way as places where white voters live.Milwaukee County, for example, <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/milwaukeecountywisconsin">is 27% Black and around 50% nonwhite</a>, according to 2010 census data. <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/WI">Wisconsin overall is just 19% nonwhite</a>.Trump and his allies continue to file new lawsuits and appeals even as the Electoral College certifies President-elect Joe Biden's win Monday, and <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">even as none of them have won in court</a>. Karofsky joined three other justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court in ruling against Trump in the case Monday, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">bringing his total loss tally to 36</a>.His campaign pursued similar strategies in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, and Georgia - challenging the election results in areas where large numbers of nonwhite voters live, while making no challenges to other areas that voted by the same rules. All of the lawsuits failed.<ul><li>In Pennsylvania, the Trump campaign filed an 85-page lawsuit that tried to invalidate the votes of Allegheny, Centre, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Northampton, and Philadelphia counties - all of which voted for Biden. It <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-pennsylvania-election-lawsuit-allege-voter-fraud-2-counties-2020-11">cited voter fraud examples in Fayette and Luzerne counties</a>, which were not targeted in the lawsuit and which voted for Trump.</li><li>In Michigan, the Trump campaign's challenge focused on Wayne County, home to Detroit, where the population is around 80% Black. <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/01/trump-voter-fraud-claims-target-counties-more-black-latino-votes/6391908002/">According to USA Today</a>, the challenge didn't allege any <keyword id="43546" type="EVENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Voting">voting</keyword> anomalies in suburban counties with large white populations where Biden also won by significant margins.</li><li>In Arizona, the campaign sued over the results in Maricopa County, which has a disproportionately large Hispanic and Latino population, <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/01/trump-voter-fraud-claims-target-counties-more-black-latino-votes/6391908002/">according to USA Today</a>.</li><li>And in Georgia, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">the Trump campaign's legal challenge targeted Chatham County</a>, which includes the city of Savannah and which is more than 40% Black, <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/chathamcountygeorgia">according to 2010 census data</a>.</li></ul>Rudy Giuliani, the leader of the Trump campaign's legal team challenging election results, has not exactly been subtle with his rhetoric, either.In a Pennsylvania federal court, Giuliani falsely claimed the city of Philadelphia was engaged in widespread voter fraud, and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-campaign-lawsuit-pennsylvania-57eefd35a6946eb977eb0c1d22b35d48">included</a> Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Milwaukee, and Detroit in his tirade against the phantom fraud for good measure. In <a href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fultoncountygeorgia">an interview last week</a>, he said election officials in Georgia's largely Black Fulton County were "passing around USB ports like they were vials of heroin or cocaine."<div type="image" title="savannah georgia voting election" height="1771" width="2368" msid="79730600" hostid="261"></div>Trump himself has made similar comments, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/voter-fraud/617354/">as The Atlantic's Adam Serwer pointed out</a>, baselessly bashing the largely Black cities of Detroit of Philadelphia in early November, before each city became the target of his failed election lawsuits."Detroit and Philadelphia - known as two of the most corrupt political places anywhere in our country, easily - cannot be responsible for engineering the outcome of a presidential <keyword id="15024" type="ENTERTAINMENT" weightage="60" keywordseo="Race">race</keyword>," <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-election/">Trump said on November 5</a>.Kristen Clarke, president and executive director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/11/24/938187233/trump-push-to-invalidate-votes-in-heavily-black-cities-alarms-civil-rights-group">told NPR</a> there was a "racial dimension" to the Trump campaign's legal assault on those cities."It is difficult for me to think of another president in modern time who has literally driven a national scheme to disenfranchise Black voters and other voters of color en masse, in the way that we see with these post-election lawsuits," she told NPR.<h2>Republicans have historically tried to make it harder for Black Americans to vote</h2>Support for the Republican Party is overwhelmingly white. <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/10/26/what-the-2020-electorate-looks-like-by-party-race-and-ethnicity-age-education-and-religion/">According to a 2019 Pew survey</a>, 81% of the party's support comes from white voters compared to 59% of the Democratic Party's support. And 69% of the US electorate is white overall, according to the same survey.In 1982, the Republican National Committee, after coming under criticism for sending off-duty police officers to patrol Black and Latino neighborhoods during voting periods, agreed to a consent decree to stop voter intimidation tactics. A federal judge <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-engage-voter-intimidation-because-1982-consent-decree-ended-2020-9">lifted that restriction in 2018</a>.Republicans in many states pass voting laws that <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/poll-prri-voter-suppression/565355/">make it harder for communities of color to vote</a>, and <a href="https://publicintegrity.org/politics/elections/ballotboxbarriers/analysis-voter-suppression-never-went-away-tactics-changed/">those efforts have only ramped up</a> since <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/07/how-shelby-county-broke-america/564707/">the conservative-majority Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013</a>.<div type="image" title="atlanta georgia voting election" height="1665" width="2221" msid="79730601" hostid="261"></div>That has continued in the <keyword id="7600569" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="2020-election">2020 election</keyword>. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, just two weeks before Election Day, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/27/texas-voting-elections-mail-in-drop-off/">issued a rule</a> that permitted only one drop-off location for mail-in ballots per county. That left voters living in the state's more populous, diverse counties <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/11/texas-ballot-drop-off-locations/">at a disadvantage</a>.Trump ended up winning Texas <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/2020-election-results">by more than 600,000 votes</a>. But when he lost the presidential election, Republican officials in Texas threw a fit.The state's attorney general filed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-election-result-lawsuit-trump-supreme-court-motion-problems-2020-12">a falsehood-filled lawsuit</a> to the Supreme Court challenging the results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Georgia, where Biden won. <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22O155/163492/20201211095715842_TX-v-State-MPI-Reply-2020-12-11.pdf">The lawsuit</a> accused <a href="https://twitter.com/bradheath/status/1337418151106109442">"a few urban centers"</a> of manufacturing an "unlawful" vote margin.The Supreme Court decided to reject a hearing for the lawsuit. The Electoral College will formally certify Biden's victory on Monday.<ul class="read-more-links"><li>Read more:</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-gop-decries-supreme-court-election-decision-hints-at-secession-2020-12">The Texas GOP had a fit after the Supreme Court rejected their bid to flip the election in Trump's favor, and now they're hinting at secession</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-campaign-lawsuits-election-results-2020-11">Trump and Republican officials have won zero out of at least 39 lawsuits they've filed since Election Day</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-election-lawsuits-filed-weeks-years-after-alleged-problems-judges-2020-12">Judges striking down and dismissing Trump's election lawsuits keep asking: Why'd you wait so long?</a></li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/smartmatic-voting-company-demands-retraction-fox-news-oan-newsmax-2020-12">A voting technology company at the center of election conspiracy theories demanded a retraction from Fox News, accusing them of 'a concerted disinformation campaign'</a></li></ul>

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The Trump campaign's new lawsuit would invalidate 221,000 Wisconsin ballots — including votes cast by mail because of the coronavirus pandemic

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Trump's top election lawyer in Wisconsin says he and his wife voted illegally in the campaign's latest legal argument

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Trump's legal attempt to throw out votes in Wisconsin's most diverse counties 'smacks of racism,' judge says

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A judge just struck down Trump's attempt to throw out 221,000 votes in Wisconsin - including votes cast by mail because of the pandemic

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Trump's election lawsuits repeatedly tried to throw out votes in areas where Black voters live

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