Conservatives sue to allow Republican-controlled WI Legislature to pick electors

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Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal

... The lawsuit was filed by attorney Erick Kaardal, a former Minnesota Republican Party official who also represented Kanye West in his attempt to get on the ballot ...

Central .. is the allegation that several .. cities .. unlawfully accepted $6 million from the Mark Zuckerberg-backed Center for Technology and Civic Life ...

The group earlier .. filed a separate suit against the elections grants, claiming the money constituted bribery .. but a federal judge in October rejected their request to block the funding ...

The city of Madison said it's confident use of the funds is legal, and has helped large cities address challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic ...

https://madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/conservative-group-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-to-nullify-states-presidential-election-results/article_dd0dff38-f50b-5c16-9084-ae9ac6d5fca1.html

[Thomas Hurt]

1. The "pulled it out of my a##" legal theory?

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2. Suit alleges illegal votes exceed number by which President-elect Biden won

By Morgan Phillips | Fox News

... The Wisconsin GOP filed an emergency petition in the state supreme court on Tuesday to stop the final certification of election results, as two counties press forward with a recount ...

The GOP suit alleges that illegal votes exceed the number by which President-elect Joe Biden won the state ...

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wisconsin-republicans-file-emergency-petition-to-delay-vote-certification

[Demsrule86]

4. The Wisconsin Supreme Court sucks...I hope they don't try to help Trump.

Biden has 279 ECV now.

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3. Wisconsin Republicans blame Zuckerberg

MATT NAHAM
Nov 24th, 2020, 3:59 pm

... Zuckerberg, typically criticized by the left for enabling right-wing content to flourish on Facebook, was a subject of a petition filed on Monday in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin. The emergency petition for original action filed by the Wisconsin Voters Alliance and more than a dozen individual petitioners claims to be concerned about “Zuckerberg money” ...

Why are they filing this in the Wisconsin Supreme Court? To get the court to say “Zuckerberg money” means the election, which went to Biden by about 20,000 votes, is void and the choice of “Presidential Electors” goes back to the Republican-controlled state legislature ...

https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/wisconsin-republicans-blame-mark-zuckerberg-for-trumps-loss-in-lawsuit/

[C_U_L8R]

5. How much money is wasted defending these frivolous suits?

It's time the courts punish this abuse with big fines. At minimum, they should be paying every other parties' legal fees. Enough is enough. It's time to decisively stop the Republican bullshit.

[Fullduplexxx]

6. No ... remember money is speech not bribes

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7. Conservative group suing

SCOTT BAUER Associated Press 1 hr ago

... At least 10 cases have been filed across the country seeking to halt certification in parts of all of key battleground states, including lawsuits brought by the Trump campaign in Michigan and Pennsylvania. So far none have been successful ...

... the lawsuit claims that more than 156,000 ballots should be tossed out.

The lawsuit alleges that more than 14,000 ballots “requested in the name of a registered Republican by someone other than that person” were cast and that more than 12,000 “Republican ballots” were returned but not counted. People do not register to vote by political party in Wisconsin so it is impossible to know how many Republicans or Democrats requested absentee ballots ...

... The lawsuit seeks to give the power to name presidential electors to the Republican-controlled Legislature ...

https://journaltimes.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/conservative-group-suing-to-undo-wisconsins-election-allow-republican-controlled-legislature-to-pick-electors/article_99309233-bec1-54da-b964-d6e98ebcb528.html

[Midnight Writer]

8. The Republicans in the Wisconsin legislature all accepted money from the Kochs.

I'm betting far more than $6 million.

How can we trust them?