GOP candidate for Secretary of State says job gives veto power over presidential election. (WI)

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Sam Levine
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A GOP candidate running for Wisconsin SoS (which has no role in overseeing elections) argues he has unilateral legal authority to reject millions of votes, for any reason, because he has the bureaucratic task of keeping track of the state seal.

urbanmilwaukee.com
Could Sleepy State Office Nix Wisconsin’s Pick for President?
GOP candidate for Secretary of State says job gives veto power over presidential election.
2:58 PM · Jun 15, 2022

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2022/06/15/could-sleepy-state-office-nix-wisconsins-pick-for-president/

After decades of having its powers chipped away by the Legislature, the Wisconsin secretary of state’s office has become largely irrelevant. The office holder’s most important remaining duty is to sit on the state Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, which oversees some state investment funds and land holdings.

But the office is also the official repository of the Great Seal of Wisconsin, which is affixed to various documents. And that, according to one of the three Republican candidates for secretary of state vying in the Aug. 9 primary for the right to run this fall, gives it absolute power to block the electorate’s choice for president.

“The secretary of state has to sign a sheet of paper for the election,” GOP contender Jay Schroeder told a gathering of the Dane County Republican Party at a city park in Sun Prairie on June 7. “I wouldn’t have signed it. Period.” The audience applauded. “That means they wouldn’t have been awarded,” he said.

Schroeder is considered a serious contender in the Aug. 9 primary election, which also includes state Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, R-Clinton, and Daniel Schmidtka, a former Marine from Green Bay. In the last secretary of state election in 2018, Schroeder ran against the office’s long-time Democratic incumbent, Doug La Follette, and nearly won, garnering 47% of the vote, or more than 1.2 million votes.

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JFC... I'm tired of these cheating assholes.

[elleng]

1. because that's just what the Founders had in mind,

30 (at the time) Secretaries of State decide who becomes President.

[LudwigPastorius]

2. Fascists gotta power grab

[PortTack]

3. Yes, and according the the electoral count act, they also will choose to wave their right to have

Their vote counted at all!

[questionseverything]

4. This shows why federal legislation is needed

[brush]

5. Hah! Let him try it.