The Sconi

President Donald Trump filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in a suit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission before the U.S. Supreme Court.

In his petition, Trump says while the Wisconsin Legislature has allowed absentee voting, it is supposed to be carefully regulated and that during the 2020 general election, the elections commission, as well as local election officials across the state, implemented unauthorized and illegal mail-in voting drop boxes and allowed poll workers to make illegal corrections on absentee ballots, which encouraged widespread fraud. 

“After Election Day, Respondents encouraged the counting of, and did count, tens of thousands of invalid absentee ballots received in violation of the ‘mandatory’ requirement of Wis. Stat. § 6.84(2) that absentee ballots ‘in contravention of the [specified statutory absentee balloting] procedures...may not be counted,’” the petition states.

In his petition, Trump is asking whether the state’s elections commission and local election officials throughout the state violated the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection, whether the court should declare the state’s election as unconstitutional and whether federal courts should rely on the doctrine of laches when reviewing certain claims.

Currently, the difference between Trump and President-elect Joe Biden in Wisconsin is only 20,682 votes, according to the petition.

“However, those ‘official’ totals include hundreds of thousands of unlawful votes stemming from ultra vires acts which usurped the Legislature’s authority over the election,” the petition states.

Trump notes in the petition that there were more than 91,000 ballots in illegal drop boxes that invalidates them in Milwaukee and Madison alone.

“As Electors Clause violations involved far more unlawful ballots than the margin of victory, it is impossible to determine which candidate received the most lawful votes,” the petition states.

Trump says the legislature is authorized to appoint electors under the Electors Clause because of the violations.