Wisconsin's election commission leader has quietly certified Donald Trump's victory in the battleground state, a departure from the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results.
FILE - Ann Jacobs is shown at a Wisconsin Elections Commission meeting on Nov. 2, 2023, in Madison. Commission Chair Ann Jacobs certified results that show Trump won the state with 1,697,626 votes compared to Democrat Kamala Harris ’ 1,668,229 votes during a morning Zoom teleconference that lasted six minutes.
The certification felt almost anticlimactic compared with the aftermath of the 2020 election, when Trump refused to accept that Joe Biden had won the state by about 21,000 votes., the state’s two Democratic strongholds, but it didn’t change the outcome. Trump later sued to disqualify more than 221,000 ballots in the two counties.
The election commission’s nonpartisan administrator, Meagan Wolfe, found herself the target of conspiracy theorists and election skeptics who falsely claimed she was part of a plot to rig the 2020 election for Biden. Republican legislators are trying to fire her but the commission has filed a lawsuit to keep in her post. That case is currently before the state Supreme Court.
Trump’s national victory in November has calmed conservative anger but a vocal faction of the GOP remains deeply skeptical of election processes, particularly the use of mail ballots and scanners to tally votes. Still, several states that saw tumultuous certifications during the 2020 election and 2022 midterms haveRichmond covers Wisconsin politics and courts as well as environmental issues and breaking news across the Great Lakes region. He is based in Madison.
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