By Zachary Stieber Election officials in Wisconsin have deleted more than 205,000 names from voter registration rolls as part of maintaining the lists, they announced on Aug. 4. More than 174,000 of the voters hadn’t voted in the past four years and didn’t respond to a mailing, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission. The deactivation was required […]
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‘Special Counsel’ Named to Investigate 2020 Election in Wisconsin: House Speaker
By Jack Phillips The top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly said Friday that his office is expanding a probe into the 2020 presidential election, adding that more investigations are warranted. House Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, signed contracts with several retired law enforcement officials and a former judge, although two of three quit in recent days, he […]
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Wisconsin Lawmaker Calls for ‘Full Forensic Audit’ After Georgia, Arizona Updates
By Zachary Stieber A Wisconsin representative on Friday said 2020 election reviews being done in the state should be expanded into a “full forensic audit” following alleged irregularities being revealed in Arizona and Georgia. State Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Republican, formally requested “a more comprehensive audit” from former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, who is leading a conducting a […]
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Wisconsin Senate Passes ‘Second Amendment Sanctuary’ Bill
By Jack Phillips Wisconsin’s GOP-led state Senate on Wednesday passed a measure to turn the state into a “Second Amendment sanctuary,” becoming the latest to do so amid a similar push from Republican state legislatures and governors around the country. The state Senate passed Assembly Bill 293 by a voice vote, sending a bill to Democrat […]
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Report: Zuckerberg-Backed Grants, Which Were Irregularly Distributed, Increased Voter Turnout for Democrats in Wisconsin 2020 Election
By Li Hai A Wisconsin-based think tank analyzed the impact of private election administration grants on the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin, claiming in its newly released report that the donations had a “significant” impact on voter turnout for Democrats. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a think tank and litigation center, requested and received […]
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Wisconsin Nov. 3 Election Will Be Investigated by Retired Officers: Assembly Speaker
By Jack Phillips Wisconsin state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says he’s hiring retired police officers to probe aspects of the 2020 presidential election, joining efforts in Republican-led states to look into the contest. Vos, a Republican, told local news outlets that he will hire three retired officers to work with an Assembly committee that has investigatory powers […]
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Wisconsin Assembly Greenlights Investigation Into 2020 Election
By Zachary Stieber The Wisconsin Assembly on Tuesday approved a resolution authorizing an investigation into the 2020 election. In a party-line 58–35 vote, the lower chamber passed Assembly Resolution 15, which says in part that “the integrity of our electoral process has been jeopardized by election officials who, either through willful disregard or reckless neglect, have failed to adhere […]
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Trump Campaign Asks Supreme Court to Set Aside Wisconsin’s Election
By Isabel Van Brugen The Trump campaign announced Tuesday that it was asking the Supreme Court to set aside Wisconsin’s presidential election, and to allow the Republican-controlled legislature to choose how to cast its 10 electoral votes. The campaign asks in its filing (pdf) that the Supreme Court declare the state election “failed.” It also asks […]
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Sidney Powell: Supreme Court Appeared to Reject Wisconsin, Arizona Cases; Docketed Georgia, Michigan Lawsuits
By Jack Phillips Lawyer Sidney Powell said Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court appeared to reject two cases regarding alleged election fraud in Wisconsin and Arizona, while adding that two cases were docketed in Michigan and Georgia but won’t be heard until mid-January. According to the lawyer’s tweets, the court’s “electronic filing system shows our EMERGENCY Petitions docketed for […]
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Wisconsin Election Official: No Evidence of Fraud Related to Dominion Machines
By Zachary Stieber An election official in Wisconsin testified Friday that there’s no evidence of fraud related to Dominion Voting Systems machines. “In Wisconsin, there were no dumps of ballots during the night none. There is no evidence of any fraud related to Dominion voting machines in Wisconsin, none. The counting in Wisconsin did not stop and restart. Election […]
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Irregularities, Fraud Caused Trump to Lose Wisconsin: Election Commissioner
By Zachary Stieber A member of the Wisconsin election board said Friday that irregularities, fraud, and “Democrat tricks” caused President Donald Trump to lose the state after narrowly winning it four years ago. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden beat Trump in this year’s election by approximately 20,000 votes. Bob Spindell, a Republican commissioner on the Wisconsin Elections Commission, […]
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Wisconsin USPS Subcontractor Alleges Backdating of Tens of Thousands of Mail-In Ballots
By Isabel Van Brugen A Madison, Wisconsin, man who said he worked as a postal subcontractor in the run up to Election Day, alleged on Tuesday that he was told by USPS employees that his post office planned to backdate tens of thousands of mail-in ballots. Ethan Pease was one of three individuals who testified in a news conference […]