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brooklynite

(94,360 posts)
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 04:13 PM Jul 2021

Wisconsin Republican promises forensic election audit

Source: AP News

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican head of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee said Monday she will ensure there is a “comprehensive, forensic examination” of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election at the same time the state’s nonpartisan audit bureau conducts a review.

The broadened investigation comes amid pressure from former President Donald Trump and other national Republicans to take a closer look in Wisconsin, a state President Joe Biden won by just over 20,000 votes. There is no evidence of widespread fraud and courts rejected numerous lawsuits filed by Trump and his allies attempting to overturn the outcome. Democrats have derided calls for more investigations as feeding into conspiracy theories and lies that Trump actually won the state.

One of the loudest critics of how the election was run is Rep. Janel Brandtjen, chair of the Assembly elections committee. She said in a statement Monday that her committee will request additional materials to conduct a deeper review.

The committee’s investigation is in addition to a review ordered by Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, being done by three retired police detectives and overseen by a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, and the independent review by the audit committee.


Read more: https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-government-and-politics-elections-wisconsin-forensics-205b5302c4547888f6f1719ed91e86ec
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keithbvadu2

(36,667 posts)
3. Maybe she can hire the same fraudit company that AZ did?
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 06:54 PM
Jul 2021

Maybe she can hire the same fraudit company that AZ did?

brush

(53,743 posts)
4. So the non-partisan review is not good enough for them.
Tue Jul 27, 2021, 11:14 PM
Jul 2021

They have to to a "comprehensive, forensic" audit.

More taxpayer money wasted for predictable results...they lost the election.

cstanleytech

(26,236 posts)
6. The whole point though of this is to try and justify their new Jim Crow voting laws
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 02:33 AM
Jul 2021

that the Conservative supreme justices rubber stamped their complete and utter support behind.

Response to brooklynite (Original post)

heckles65

(547 posts)
7. This is what gets me.
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 09:00 AM
Jul 2021

Has anyone ever speculated who the Eisenhower was behind this electoral Operation Overlord? I mean, thousands of people working in clocklike precision. Somebody had to be running the show.

Biden? No, they think he's senile. George Soros, perhaps?

StClone

(11,682 posts)
8. Yes, question the election 2020 WI results
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 09:34 AM
Jul 2021

Why do Repiggies win in Wisconsin EXCEPT when they have no means to gerrymander the results.

Grins

(7,199 posts)
9. Maybe they should listen to the man who looks like he just huffed spray paint fumes?
Wed Jul 28, 2021, 01:29 PM
Jul 2021
Maybe they should listen to and heed what the last Republican governor of Wisconsin said about trying to flip an election?



A look at 4,000 ballots in an earlier election (I'm guessing in Wauwatosa) flipped all of 131 votes.
To get to 20,601 (a one-vote margin of "victory" ) they would have to look at 2,698,731 ballots.

On 30 November 2020 the state concluded its vote recount and handed Biden a net GAIN of an additional 87 votes.
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