In Wisconsin, Ms. Jacobs chose to certify Mr. Biden’s victory there one day before the state’s Dec. 1 deadline to do so. Ms. Jacobs, a Democrat from Milwaukee, said that certifying the result of the presidential election came at her discretion and that she expected the move to kick-start legal challenges from the Trump campaign. “The power to do this is vested solely in the chair,” Ms. Jacobs said in an interview on Monday. All states must exhaust legal challenges by Dec. 8. The Trump campaign has argued in its recount petition that all ballots cast at in-person absentee voting sites before Election Day should be disqualified.

Source: New York Times November 30, 2020 23:25 UTC