Wisconsin Election Officials Say State Supreme Court Shouldn’t Invalidate Election

Election officials from around Dane County bring ballots into the Monona Terrace in Madison, Wis., for a recount, on Nov. 19, 2020. Steve Apps/Wisconsin State Journal via AP

Election officials in Wisconsin asked the state’s Supreme Court on Friday not to invalidate the Nov. 3 election.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission said plaintiffs who filed an emergency petition earlier this week made arguments that rest “on the flimsiest of legal and factual bases.”