Federal Appeals Court Denies Trump Appeal in Wisconsin Election Fraud Case

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A federal court has denied an appeal by the Trump campaign in a case alleging massive voter fraud in Wisconsin.

The Trump campaign had sued, saying the Wisconsin Election Commission substantially altered election procedures in Wisconsin without approval from the state legislature, which would make the changes unlawful. Those changes led to widespread ballot fraud on Nov. 3, the campaign alleged.

The judge in the case, Federal Judge Brett Ludwig, ruled that the word “manner” in the Electors Clause of the Constitution signifies only “method,” and the WEC honored the method electors in the state are to be chosen: by “general ballot at the general election.”

Ludwig did not address the larger allegation of the lawsuit however: that the significant expansion of absentee voting, for example, led to fraudulent votes being cast, which caused the electors not to be chosen by “general ballot at the general election,” but rather by those who were in control of creating and, more importantly, tallying the fraudulent ballots.

The three-judge panel in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit also did not broach the broader issues raised in Thursday’s ruling. It found only that the procedures undertaken by the WEC were lawful.

“For our part, all we need to say is that, even on a broad reading of the Electors Clause, Wisconsin lawfully appointed its electors in the manner directed by its legislature. For these reasons, we AFFIRM,” it wrote.

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