Thread by @MollyBeck

The Trump campaign is seeking volunteers in Wisconsin to call Pennsylvania supporters and ask them to return mail ballots, three days after the election. jsonline.com/story/news/pol…

Volunteers are urged to contact a pair of field directors listed in the email.

The two, Riley Pella and Joshua Williams, are paid staffers for the Republican Party of Wisconsin, filings with the Federal Election Commission show.

"This seems deeply stupid as it seems to be a solicitation to commit voter fraud," said Richard Hasen, an elections law specialist at the University of California, Irvine Law School. "It's hard to believe this is real."

Benjamin Geffen, an attorney with the Public Interest Law Center in Philadelphia, said he doubted there are many — if any — Pennsylvania Trump supporters who hadn't sent absentee ballots in on time.

But if any existed and did get their ballots somehow counted improperly, Trump's campaign might point to that as a example of problems in the entire process, and use it to question the integrity of the larger count.

"If you're knowingly encouraging people to mail in ballots after the deadline, you're encouraging cheating," Geffen said. "But maybe it's just to muddy the waters."

"I don't know if it's what you could call first degree misconduct, (trying to actually get invalid votes counted) or just second degree misconduct, trying to create perception the process is riddled with fraud."

Story by @MSpicuzzaMJS and @ProofHearsay