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We’ve been investigating the Wisconsin partisan election review, barriers to voting, and the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Yesterday, we had major developments in each investigation.

Here’s what you should know.

First, our #FOIA lawsuit revealed that the phones of top DOD and Army officials on Jan. 6, 2021 — including acting Defense Sec. Chris Miller and Army Sec. Ryan McCarthy — were wiped and text messages were not preserved.
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We asked Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate the apparent destruction of federal records by DOD and the Army — records that could have shed light on critical open questions about the Jan. 6 attack.

https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1554551645605953538?s=20&t=bHwZW4OmeAtnf1ekQ2Gc4w

Next, we sued the Election Assistance Commission for communications between select commissioners and known election conspiracy theorists and voting restriction advocates, including EAC advisory board member Cleta Mitchell.
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The public needs to know whether Mitchell and her allies have sought to undermine the critical work of the EAC at a time when local election officials are facing increasing harassment and threats of violence, even as they prepare for upcoming elections.

Third, we obtained a memo that shows Michael Gableman—the attorney leading Wisconsin's election review—privately warned against the legally impossible action of decertifying the election just two weeks after he publicly encouraged lawmakers to consider it.
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On March 1, Michael Gableman said Wisconsin should take a "hard look" at “decertifying” the 2020 election.

In a March 16 memo we uncovered, Gableman advised Assembly Speaker Robin Vos against decertification.

Regardless of Gableman’s opinion, “decertification” is not legally possible, Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election results were valid, and no one, including Gableman, has been able to come up with substantive evidence to the contrary.

These investigations are all ongoing. You can receive weekly updates on what we uncover by signing up for our newsletter here:
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