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War Room on Wisconsin ‘decertification’…
MADISON, Wis. (CN) — A conservative former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by Republican legislative leaders to investigate the 2020 election called for the elimination of the bipartisan state elections board and encouraged lawmakers to explore decertifying the 2020 election during a hearing on his investigation before a legislative elections committee on Tuesday.
Michael Gableman was hired by state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, over the summer for one of multiple probes into irregularities and illegality during the 2020 general election.
Gableman has an approved budget of nearly $680,000 in taxpayer money for his probe, which stalled late last year in part because of legal fights over subpoenas he issued. The former justice has been largely mum on his probe’s activities and personnel.
“I had no other goal in mind than to find the truth,” Gableman said of his audit, which he also said is unfinished.
The chief issue in Gableman’s crosshairs was the Center for Tech and Civic Life, or CTCL—an organization run by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan—and about $8.8 million dollars for election administration it provided to the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay, all among Wisconsin’s largest and most liberal regions. Around 200 other Wisconsin municipalities got CTCL money as well, as did many other areas nationwide.
In essence, Gableman charged that Zuckerberg and others associated with CTCL colluded with partisans to use the guise of grant money meant to facilitate voting amid the Covid-19 pandemic to fund a clandestine get-out-the-vote effort targeting Black voters in liberal cities, which Gableman claims violated Wisconsin law prohibiting election bribery.
Gableman also claimed the WEC intentionally broke the law by failing to deploy special voting deputies to nursing homes to help residents in those facilities vote in the 2020 general election. He played videos of eight nursing home residents of varying levels of cognitive disability, whose relatives were surprised they had voted in 2020, being interviewed by an attorney with his investigation. |
