Politics Arizona, Wisconsin to certify election results Monday, Trump may challenge outcome

Two key battleground states, Arizona and Wisconsin, are expected to certify their votes Monday, further closing the door on President Donald Trump's legal battles challenging the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Vice President-elect Joe Biden will be certified as the winner in both those states.

Arizona officials will certify election results at 1 p.m. EST/11 a.m. MT., which will be certified by Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs while Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, Attorney General Mark Brnovich and Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Brutinel serve as witnesses.

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Watch live presidential election results as ballots are counted in key swing states for President Trump and Joe Biden.Chelsea Stahl / NBC News. Data from Arizona 's Maricopa County shows that there are still about 605,000 uncounted ballots, and results for a bulk of them are expected to come out in

Trump has packed court with conservatives and lawyers are ready to challenge election process, but The Wisconsin decision was delivered before Trump ’s third pick for the supreme court, Amy The closer the outcome in the electoral college, the more messy things become, with the memory of

© OLIVIER TOURON, AFP via Getty Images Poll workers count ballots inside the Maricopa County Election Department in Phoenix, Arizona on November 5, 2020.

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Wisconsin Elections Commissions chairwoman Ann Jacobs said Sunday that she plans to certify votes on Monday to resolve legal challenges more quickly.

"The reason for that is the Trump campaign cannot appeal until it's certified," she said.

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Trump is expected to challenge the certified results in both states.

Trump tweeted Saturday that: "The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday."

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Michigan's elections board recommended certification, saying Detroit had fewer problems than the August primary and the 2016 presidential election. "As in past elections, some jurisdictions made errors in reporting unofficial results," the report said. "These errors are all attributable to human error in the operation of tools used to report unofficial results, did not affect the actual tabulation of votes, and were identified and corrected.

The 2020 presidential race results have yet to be officially certified amid legal challenges over the supposed What do you make of Team Trump 's effort to challenge the results of the election in local courts? The fraud was well documented and could be proved to have changed the outcome .

Trump sues: Trump ’s campaign put into action the legal strategy the president had signalled for weeks: attacking the integrity of the voting process in states where the result could Clearly the 2020 election results surprised and disappointed many observers. In other cases, it simply reconfirmed their priors.

In Arizona, results can be contested for five days following the certification.

Trump's team has challenged results in several states, but the president has faced a string of setbacks.

Contributing: Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; Andrew Oxford, Arizona Republic

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