The recount of votes demanded by US President Donald Trump's campaign in Milwaukee, the largest county in the state of Wisconsin, ended with Democratic President-elect Joe Biden receiving more votes, while Trump and the director of the US Postal Service appealed a federal judge's decision regarding the agency’s role in delivering ballot papers .

And after recounting nearly 460,000 votes in Milwaukee County, the difference between the Democratic candidate and the Republican candidate became 132 additional votes in favor of Biden, and in total the president-elect got 257 additional votes compared to 125 votes for Trump.

The Trump campaign had called for a recount in two of the most populous Wisconsin counties, which tend to favor the Democratic Party, after losing the state by more than 20,000 votes.

Trump's campaign will cost $ 3 million to carry out the recount in the two counties, and Dean County is expected to finish the recount on Sunday.

At the level of the United States, Biden won the presidential elections that were held on the third of November with a majority of 306 of the electoral college votes, which is much more than the 270 votes needed to win the presidency, while Trump received 232 votes.

Biden leads the popular vote, too, with more than 6 million votes over his Republican rival.

After the recount was over, Milwaukee County Notary George Christenson said the process "illustrates what we already know, which is that the elections in Milwaukee County are fair, transparent, accurate and sound."


The Trump campaign is still expected to contest the overall score in Wisconsin as a whole, before the state ratifies its results next Tuesday.

Postal Authority

On the other hand, the US Department of Justice stated that President Trump and the Postal Service have appealed the decision of a federal judge to force the commission to hand out ballot papers before the presidential elections, and to order the suspension of changes made by Director General of the Authority Louis DeGoy to the mail service last summer.

Judge Emmett Sullivan issued a decision last September requiring the Postal Administration to take exceptional measures to ensure the delivery of ballot papers, but the postal authority was unable to abide by the time specified by the judge.

The General Manager of the Postal Service, Louis Deguy, an associate of the Republican Party, made changes that delayed the distribution of mail nationwide as a whole.

Pennsylvania

And in Pennsylvania, a court on Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by the Trump campaign to appeal a ruling rejecting the campaign's request to cancel thousands of mail-delivered votes and delay the state's ratification of the count results.

The unanimous ruling, written by a judge appointed by Trump himself, is a setback for Trump's efforts to prolong the approval of several states on the results of the count, and to question the elections.

The ruling stated that accusations made by the Trump campaign of election violations lack evidence.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Washington - Nasir al-Husseini - said that Trump's legal team announced that it would knock on the door of the US Supreme Court after losing the case in the Pennsylvania state courts.

The reporter added that preliminary information published by US media indicates that the US Supreme Court judges do not have any appetite for entering into a political battle being waged by President Trump, who repeats his claim of rigging the elections in 4 swing states in which he did not win, and contributed to the election of his rival Biden.

In a related context, the US Director of Cybersecurity, who was dismissed by President Trump for saying that the presidential elections were the most accurate elections in American history, described Trump's allegations of fraud in the elections as "farcical" allegations.

On Friday, former Director of the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security, Chris Krebs, said in an interview with the "60 Minutes" program broadcast by CBS, that the allegations of foreign countries manipulating vote recording systems are unfounded. .

It should be noted that after all the American states have ratified the results of the presidential elections in the next few days, the Electoral College will hold a meeting on December 14 to choose the new president of the country, whose inauguration will take place on January 20 next to receive Officially his duties.