Former U.S. President Donald Trump is calling for the 2020 Wisconsin election results to be overturned a day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled ballots drop boxes to be illegal.
“Other States are looking at, and studying, the amazing Wisconsin Supreme Court decision declaring Ballot Boxes ILLEGAL, and that decision includes the 2020 Presidential Election,” wrote the former president on Truth Social on July 9, referring to himself as the winner in Wisconsin during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
“Speaker Robin Vos has a decision to make! Does Wisconsin RECLAIM the Electors, turn over the Election to the actual winner (by a lot!), or sit back and do nothing as our Country continues to go to HELL?” Trump said, urging Wisconsin State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to decertify Biden’s 2020 win in Wisconsin.
According to the U.S. National Archives, Joe Biden received 20,682 more votes than Trump in Wisconsin, or about 0.6 percentage points; a total of 3.2 million votes were cast in the state in 2020.
Ballot Boxes
Trump’s comments came a day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled the use of ballot drop boxes—which was allowed under guidelines issued by the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) during the 2020 election—to be illegal in a 4–3 decision.
“We hold the documents are invalid because ballot drop boxes are illegal under Wisconsin statutes,” Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s majority opinion, referring to WEC’s guidelines issued in March (pdf) and again in August (pdf) 2020 allowing election administrators to use drop boxes.
“An absentee ballot must be returned by mail or the voter must personally deliver it to the municipal clerk at the clerk’s office or a designated alternate site,” Bradley added.
However, these now-illegal ballot drop boxes were used across the state in the 2020 election.
According to the Supreme Court ruling, WEC administrator Megan Wolfe “is aware of 528 ballot drop boxes utilized for the fall 2020 election.” This number increased to 570 in the 2021 election, spanning 66 of Wisconsin’s 72 counties, the ruling states.
By Gary Bai
