Wisconsin Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Trump GOP Case, Separate Determination Would be Needed to Toss Ballots that Circumvented Voter ID Law

This morning the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled election officials were wrong in using Covid-19 for “indefinitely confined” status to vote by mail-in ballot without ID.

@RealAPolitics they came through!

— The Election Wizard (@Wizard_Predicts) December 14, 2020

Election Wizard Reported “The opinion, which was released this morning, says local elections officials were wrong to suggest that voters could claim the status of “indefinitely confined” based on COVID-19. The majority decision also held that if voters falsely claimed they were indefinitely confined “their ballots would not count.”

But the court noted that a determination must be made in every case before tossing a ballot, as President Trump has sought in a separate lawsuit.

Under Wisconsin law, a voter may receive a ballot by mail and bypass Wisconsin’s voter ID law, if the voter, by his own determination, concludes he “confined” based on age, physical illness, or infirmity. This fall, roughly 215,000 voters in Wisconsin said they were indefinitely confined, nearly a four-fold increase from the 2016 election.

The court said the government’s interpretation of Wisconsin’s indefinitely confinement law was erroneous. “A county clerk may not “declare” that any elector is indefinitely confined due to a pandemic,” the court said. The court further stated that, “…the presence of a communicable disease such as COVID-19, in and of itself, does not entitle all electors [voters] in Wisconsin to obtain an absentee ballot…””

The Trump team still has an uphill battle ahead of them as this ruling does not invalidate any ballots by itself, but could potentially lead to a good chunk of those being invalidated based on our interpretation of the story on the ruling.

President Trump has yet to concede the election. The electoral college is meeting today to finalize the vote for the 2020 Presidential Election that Joe Biden has reportedly ‘won’.

It is unclear what the ongoing litigation can do at this point to affect the outcome of the election considering the electoral college is meeting today. The only recourse left would be the US Congress intervening which seems very unlikely at this point.

UPDATE: In a separate case, the Wisconsin Supreme Court just ruled against the Trump team in a push to overturn the election that you can read about here, and here in our newest report.

Stay tuned to Media Right News for more updates as they come.