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We’ve been investigating the Wisconsin Assembly’s partisan election review.

Last week, there were major developments in our litigation and we uncovered more than 700 pages of records. Here’s what you should know. THREAD.

Our lawsuit forced the release of more than 700 pages of public records from the Wisconsin election investigation — revealing that the probe has done little actual investigating, despite the extensive efforts of the Wisconsin Assembly to shield those documents from the public. 2/

As the judge put it when ordering the records to be released, they amount to “much to-do about nothing.” Our review of the documents found that they do not support the conclusions put forward by attorney Michael Gableman in the problematic report he recently released. 3/

The documents show that months into review, Gableman’s Office of Special Counsel was apparently considering ways to avoid transparency and still selecting furniture. 4/

The records do show that certain conservative figures appear to have played a more significant role in the investigation than previously known, and that Gableman looked to get in touch with longtime voting-restriction proponent Hans von Spakovsky. 5/
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In a separate lawsuit we filed for investigation-related records held by Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the judge on Thursday set a March 23 deadline for Vos to search for records that may have been deleted and to respond to other requests we’ve filed. 6/

There’s more. Records we recently obtained show that the taxpayer-funded investigation has cost at least $519,000 since its launch, despite Gableman’s recent testimony that he had about $300,000 of his $676,000 budget remaining. 7/
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The records also showed that taxpayers paid for Gableman’s travel to a local political event in Dec. We previously obtained records that showed taxpayers paid for Gableman to travel to the Arizona “audit” and election denier Mike Lindell’s “cyber symposium.” 8/

Now, thanks to the public attention, that money will be withheld from future payments to Gableman. 9/

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We’ve been working to uncover the facts about Wisconsin’s ongoing partisan election review, the people and organizations behind it, and how it’s being conducted. Learn more about our ongoing investigation here: END
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