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Nevilledog

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Thu Jul 8, 2021, 02:41 PM Jul 2021

MaddowBlog: Why Wisconsin Republicans' 2020 election review is such a mess



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MaddowBlog: The good news is that Wisconsin Republicans do not intend to duplicate Arizona Republicans' utterly bonkers election "audit." The bad news is that GOP officials in Wisconsin are pursuing a related course that's nearly as misguided.

Why Wisconsin Republicans' 2020 election review is such a mess
The Wisconsin Republicans' 2020 election review is already literally unbelievable, and it's just getting started.
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11:31 AM · Jul 8, 2021


https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/why-wisconsin-republicans-2020-election-review-such-mess-n1273362?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

The good news is that Wisconsin Republicans do not intend to duplicate Arizona Republicans' utterly bonkers election "audit." The bad news is that GOP officials in Wisconsin are pursuing a related course that's nearly as misguided. The Associated Press reported the other day:

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos plans to pay former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman $44,000 to lead a probe of 2020 presidential election results in Wisconsin. Vos announced in May that he plans to hire three retired police officers to review the election. He announced at the state Republican convention on June 26 that Gableman will oversee the investigation. The Assembly chief clerk's office on Friday released a contract between Gableman and Vos that calls for paying Gableman $11,000 in taxpayer dollars every month between July and October.


Wisconsin's Republican state Assembly speaker is also paying retired police officers nearly $20,000 -- again at taxpayer expense -- to assist with the "investigation."

The obvious problem with the endeavor is that there's no good reason to investigate Wisconsin's election results in the first place. GOP officials may not have liked the voters' verdict -- President Biden narrowly won the state -- but there is no evidence of impropriety. Going fishing for evidence appears to be the latest in a series of Republican efforts to undermine public confidence in the system.

But the less obvious problem is the one Rachel identified on the show this week: this specific investigation appears to be designed to produce a specific result.

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MaddowBlog: Why Wisconsin Republicans' 2020 election review is such a mess (Original Post) Nevilledog Jul 2021 OP
Designed to produce a specific result? The audits only further discourage gqp voters PortTack Jul 2021 #1

PortTack

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1. Designed to produce a specific result? The audits only further discourage gqp voters
Thu Jul 8, 2021, 03:38 PM
Jul 2021

While Dems are more enthusiastic than ever.

The NYT says polls show it’s going to hurt the gqp in the midterms. (Couldn’t open the article, quoting from an Internet search.)

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/06/29/arizona-ballot-audit-gop-biden-496908

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