NEW: “I was surprised and disappointed by the ‘all or nothing’ approach being sold by Mike Lindell,” Wisconsin election investigator Michael Gableman wrote to Assembly Speaker Robin Vos after returning from Lindell’s “cyber symposium.” americanoversight.org/document/wisco…
A week after this email, Gableman was in direct contact with Lindell — with Lindell sending multiple emails over several days, apparently containing attachments or links to Dropbox files. documentcloud.org/documents/2113…
July 23: “We’ve got the cyber ninja team on hold” a conservative activist who has supported election conspiracies emailed Gableman, claiming to be passing along a message from WI Rep. Tim Ramthun’s office. documentcloud.org/documents/2113…
A few weeks later, in early August, Gableman and multiple members of his staff visited the Arizona audit at taxpayer expense. americanoversight.org/expense-record…
See the full production we just obtained (yes, on a Saturday afternoon) from Wisconsin’s partisan election investigation. americanoversight.org/document/wisco…
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Pennsylvania has joined the growing number of states where partisan actors have launched baseless election investigations. In Sept., lawmakers initiated a “forensic investigation” into the state’s 2020 election results. We’re investigating. #FoiaFriday americanoversight.org/investigation/…
Supporters of former President Trump’s baseless claims of fraud had been laying the groundwork in Pa. for months, creating committees on “election integrity,” filing legislation to impose new voting restrictions, holding hearings about the election process, and more.
One key player who led the push to “audit” Pennsylvania’s election was state Sen. Doug Mastriano, a vocal Trump ally who attended and organized buses to the rally that preceded the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
As Vos’s hand-selected Special Counsel is trying to have local officials detained for failing to comply with his ridiculous subpoenas, he is flagrantly defying an actual court order to release records to the public. This shell game demands accountability and needs to end.
On Oct. 8, we filed a lawsuit against Vos and the Assembly for failing to release contractors’ records in response to our requests for documents related to the state’s partisan election review. americanoversight.org/court-orders-w…
We obtained correspondence between members of the Arizona legislature and a nationwide network of donors, activists, attorneys, and candidates for elected office “whose goal is completing a cyber forensic audit in their state.” Here’s how we’re investigating.
We uncovered an invitation to an “Election Integrity Call” on July 3. Invitees included prominent supporters of the Big Lie: John Eastman (the lawyer who wrote a memo saying VP Pence could reject Joe Biden’s victory), Mike Flynn, and attorney Lin Wood. documentcloud.org/documents/2105…
We want to shed light on efforts to conduct unnecessary and partisan “forensic audits” of the Nov. 2020 election. We filed public records requests for the communications of state legislators who were invited to participate in the call with other invitees. americanoversight.org/document/recor…
NEW: Documents we obtained raise significant questions about the accuracy of statements a local Pennsylvania official made to a state Senate committee regarding a 2020 election audit. americanoversight.org/discrepancies-…
On September 8, 2021, Fulton County Commissioner Stuart Ulsh offered sworn testimony to the Pennsylvania Senate’s Intergovernmental Operations Committee regarding a review of the 2020 election in the county.
In his testimony, Ulsh denied being aware of Penn. State Senator Doug Mastriano’s involvement with the election review conducted by the contractor Wake TSI. The company was later involved in the Arizona “audit.”
Michael Gableman, the attorney leading the Wisconsin Assembly’s partisan election review, is testifying before the Assembly TODAY. There are important questions about this taxpayer-funded investigation that the people of Wisconsin deserve to have answered. americanoversight.org/five-key-quest…
Records we obtained show there are several people receiving payments as part of the investigation. Will Gableman confirm those individuals are investigators on his official staff? Why hasn’t Gableman released the names of all his staff?
What business did Gableman have that necessitated a visit to the Pleasant Prairie headquarters of packaging firm Uline (run by major Trump donors Liz and Dick Uihlein) in October 2021? jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
As state officials launched sham election reviews to push the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen, we sprung to action and filed dozens of public records requests to investigate. This #GivingTuesday , here’s an overview of what we’ve uncovered about sham election reviews.
I: Arizona. Soon after the election, the Arizona Senate, led by Senate President Karen Fann, subpoenaed Maricopa County, the state’s most populous county, for images of mail-in ballots, voting equipment, and other documents.
Records we later obtained showed that Fann boasted about having “numerous conversations” with Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani during this period, and had received a “personal call from President Trump thanking us for pushing to prove any fraud.”