MADISON, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - Attorneys from the Thomas More Society's Amistad Project filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, alleging that election officials nullified Joe Biden’s victory by violating state election laws.
“There are 150,000 ballots in question,” said Phillip Kline, director of the Amistad Project. “We called and spoke with the actual voters who said they got an absentee ballot, they mailed it in but they're not reflected as having voted. Then, there are ballots that are reflected as having been voted by persons who said they did not vote.”
The Amistad Project and the Thomas More Society advocate for civil liberties.
Among the petition's allegations is that a systemic effort was launched in Wisconsin using millions of dollars in private money sourced to Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg to circumvent Wisconsin absentee voting laws.
“There are several things that have indicated a concern about the integrity of this election and predominant among them is the use of private monies to dictate how local election officials manage the election and that the management of the election involved violating, sidestepping or undermining laws passed by the state legislature, which seriously put in question hundreds of thousands of ballots that were counted or not counted by the state,” Kline told Legal Newsline.
Kline is also a professor at Liberty University School of Law in Virginia.
According to the complaint, Wisconsin cities and counties are only permitted to earn revenue from taxes, bonding, fines, fees or state grants and the state legislature allows the state or state agencies to accept gifts only after it has been approved.
“The state legislature did not allow for cities and counties to take in gifts, and certainly did not allow for cities and counties to take in gifts without any oversight such as that provided by the Joint Committee on Finance,” the Nov. 23 complaint states.
The petitioners seek an injunction that would prevent certifying the election results so that the state legislature can appoint electors.
“We've hired experts who have been reviewing and analyzing the data as it has become available and these illegalities, or decisions to radically alter the way the election is managed, indicate a number of ballots and for what reasons these ballots have come into question in the election,” Kline added.
In a recount completed on Nov. 27 in Milwaukee County, President Trump gained 125 votes compared to Biden’s 257 votes, according to media reports.
As previously reported by NPR, the Trump campaign paid $3 million to recount votes in Milwaukee and Dane County, though Dane County results have yet to be completed.