Completed Wisconsin recount confirms Biden's win over Trump

 Wisconsin finished its recount of votes cast in this month's presidential election on Sunday, with only miniscule changes in results that saw Democrat Joe Biden defeat Republican Donald Trump in battleground state.

Dane County, which includes state capital of Madison, reported only small changes in its vote totals, mirroring earlier results of recount conducted in Milwaukee County. Trump gained 45 votes in Dane County, according to Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Biden won state by nearly 20,600 votes and his margin in Milwaukee and Dane counties was about 2-to-1.

“As we have said, recount only served to reaffirm Joe Biden’s victory in Wisconsin," Danielle Melfi, who led Biden's campaign in Wisconsin, said in a statement to Associated Press.

Trump’s next move in Wisconsin will likely be in court. Trump campaign officials didn't immediately respond to AP requests for comment.

In Milwaukee County, Biden’s lead increased by 132 votes after county election officials recounted more than 450,000 votes that were cast re.

Trump paid to have a recount in both counties and his attorneys appear ready for a legal challenge seeking to toss tens of thousands of ballots.

president’s campaign will need to act quickly. deadline to certify vote is Tuesday. Certification is done by Democratic chair of Wisconsin Election Commission, which is bipartisan.

Wisconsin Voters Alliance, a conservative group, has already filed a lawsuit against state election officials seeking to block certification of results. It makes many of claims Trump is expected to make.

Ar suit filed over weekend by Wisconsin resident Dean Mueller argues that ballots placed in drop boxes are illegal and must t be counted.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ attorneys have and asked state Supreme Court to dismiss suit. Evers, a Democrat, said complaint is a “mishmash of legal distortions” that uses factual misrepresentations in an attempt to take voting rights away from millions of Wisconsin residents.

Trump’s attorneys have complained about absentee ballots where voters identified mselves as “indefinitely confined,” allowing m to cast an absentee ballot without showing a photo ID; ballots that have a certification envelope with two different ink colors, indicating a poll worker may have helped complete it; and absentee ballots that don’t have a separate written record for its request, such as in-person absentee ballots.

Election officials in two counties have counted those ballots during recount, but marked m as exhibits at request of Trump campaign.

Trump’s campaign has already failed elsewhere in court without proof of widespread fraud, which experts widely agree doesn’t exist. Trump legal challenges have failed in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada and Pennsylvania.