President Donald Trump ’s campaign wired the Wisconsin Elections Commission $3 million ahead of a pending deadline for an official request for a recount in a key swing state that helped give President-elect Joe Biden a victory. “No petition has been received yet, but the Trump campaign has told WEC staff one will be filed today," the commission said in a Twitter post. The commission had previously said a statewide recount would cost an estimated $7.9 million. Any Wisconsin recount would need to be completed by Dec. 1, by when the commission must certify the election results. The estimate of the cost of a full statewide recount in the Midwest state was well above that of the presidential recount in 2016 -- driven up by the logistics of local officials conducting the operation amid a spike in the coronavirus.

Source: Mint November 18, 2020 16:30 UTC