In his opening testimony, Michael Gableman goes after Democrats as he reviews the 2020 election for Assembly Republicans.

"Whoever Tony Evers and Josh Kaul are serving in this matter, it is certainly not the public," Gableman says.
Gableman tells the Assembly Elections Committee that his interim report has been posted on wifraud.com.

The report so far has not been uploaded.
Gableman is criticizing the Government Accountability Board, which oversaw elections before the state Elections Commission was created.

As a Supreme Court justice, Gableman wrote a decision that shut down a campaign finance investigation the accountability board conducted.
Gableman says he's "not in the business" of overturning elections.

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11 Nov
On the Assembly floor, Democratic Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez says maps drawn by @GovEvers' commission were "a con."
@GovEvers She criticizes @EricHolder, @DemRedistrict and @NationPR, saying they put getting Democratic seats ahead of drawing Black and Hispanic majority districts.

"How did a national agenda get into these maps?" she says.

More here: jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
@GovEvers @EricHolder @DemRedistrict @NationPR Ortiz-Velez gets applause for her speech because it's her first time in her career speaking on the Assembly floor.
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11 Nov
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on Wisconsin lawmakers to take over elections and tell local officials to ignore the work of the bipartisan state Elections Commission.

jsonline.com/story/news/pol… — via ⁦@BillGlauber⁩ and me
.@SenRonJohnson: "I think the state Legislature has to reassert, reclaim this authority over our election system.”
"There's no mention of the governor in the Constitution. It says state legislatures, and so if I were running the joint — & I’m not — I would come out & I would just say, 'We're reclaiming our authority. Don't listen to (@WI_Elections) anymore. Their guidances are null & void.'"
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10 Nov
.@SenRonJohnson just went into a meeting with @SenatorDevin and @jimsteineke in the Wisconsin Capitol. The meeting is closed to the public.
.@SenMarklein just walked into the meeting too.
Johnson’s meeting with Wisconsin legislative leaders started at the same time as a hearing before the Assembly Elections Committee that is to feature Michael Gableman, the former state Supreme Court justice reviewing the election for Republicans.
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9 Nov
Wisconsin election officials may not set rules on ballot drop boxes bit.ly/31FQ5ZX
Today's hearing on Wisconsin's election audit is streaming here: wiseye.org/?p=25601
Today's hearing will be long, says @SenRobCowles.

There will be another hearing on tomorrow -- covering Assembly Republicans' review of the election and @RacineSheriff's recommendation to charge election officials w/ crimes.

@WI_Elections members say they committed no crimes.
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31 Oct
On “Upfront,” @vos says @deanknudson made a “bad decision” with the policies he set on nursing home voting along w/ other members of @WI_Elections.

Vos appointed Knudson to the commission.

Vos is calling for the resignation of commission director Meagan Wolfe but not of Knudson
.@WI_Elections was created in 2015 by Vos and other Republican lawmakers.

Asked by @AdriennePed if it should be disbanded, @repvos says, “I don’t know if disbanding is the right word, but we have to reform it.”
Knudson is a Republican who previously served in the Assembly. When he was there, he was a lead sponsor of the legislation creating @WI_Elections.

As with other commissioners (both R and D) he has defended the policies they set on nursing home voting during the pandemic.
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31 Oct
State Sen. @KathleenBernie8 says her committee will conduct a review of an election audit in public.

That differs from an election review by Assembly Republicans and Michael Gableman that is being done in secret.

Bernier made her comments to @AJBayatpour on “Capital City Sun.”
Bernier says “that’s not for me to say” when asked if she thinks @WI_Elections broke the law regarding how it advised clerks on voting in nursing homes.

“I don’t necessarily agree with that but my opinion doesn’t matter,” Bernier says, noting lawmakers don’t enforce laws.
Bernier is the former county clerk for Chippewa County and now chairs the Senate Elections Committee.
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