Republican legislators are refusing to pay two Wisconsin counties the $3 million they're owed for...
Republican legislators are refusing to pay two Wisconsin counties the $3 million they're owed for conducting election recounts
https://www.businessinsider.in/politics/world/news/republican-legislators-are-refusing-to-pay-two-wisconsin-counties-the-3-million-theyre-owed-for-conducting-election-recounts/articleshow/79700582.cms
Two Wisconsin counties are being denied the money they're owed for conducting election vote recounts, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
The Trump 2020 campaign paid a total of $3 million to Dane and Milwaukee counties after demanding recounts there. President Donald Trump initially lost to Joe Biden by 0.6 percentage points. When the recount was finalized, Biden's margin of victory had increased.
Candidates requesting officials to recount votes are responsible for the cost, according to Ballotpedia, unless the recount alters the result in favor of another candidate. In that case, the state will cover the recount cost.
The Trump campaign already paid the $3 million recount fee, but the state's legislature's budget committee, which has a Republican majority, is withholding it. Republican legislators have not specified why.
A letter from the state's Joint Finance Committee said one of its 16 members opposed paying the two counties the $3 million they're owed. The member was not named in the letter.
Dane County Board Chair Analiese Eicher tweeted out the letter, sent to her from Republican committee leaders Sen. Alberta Darling and Rep. Mark Born.
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They aren't paying them because they didn't flip the votes when they recounted.
