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Chair of Wisconsin Elections Commission & I have opinions on election things, Personal Injury Attorney & I have law opinions, Posts are my own & I enjoy them.
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Wisconsin friends: Now that Eric Hovde is calling for people to watch anyone who uses a drop box, it's probably a good time to review a few things.
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@ratemyskyperoom
Thank you - today on twitter, people upset w/my views asked “where does she live and where do her children go to school” and I was subjected to nasty antisemitic comments (let alone the B & C words). This is a joyful rebuttal to all of that & I appreciate it!
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As the 8 Milwaukee delegates to the DNC, we wish to express our respect and admiration for Joe Biden, and deep appreciation for his remarkable presidency. Joe Biden has always put his country first, and he continues that today. 1/2
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Decertification is the wish of a losing party cloaked in the language of the constitution while violating every principle of our constitution and our nation. A thread:
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Wow! I made Rate my Skype room!!!!!! Hats off to voting & democracy!
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We are excited to support Kamala Harris as our presidential nominee. We have full confidence in her and are energized to help her win this November!!
Ann Jacobs
Nadiyah Johnson
Terrell Martin
Craig Mastantuono
Deiadra Queary
Christine Sinicki
Christopher Walton
Brandon Williford
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Watching WI Republicans do back flips trying to pretend that a household income of $300k - which puts a family in the 96th percentile for household income - is middle class.
96th Percentile.
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Succession and Wisconsin Voting: What they got right & what they got wrong. A fun thread! 1/7
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First, it's nobody's business but yours to use a drop box. You do not have to answer any questions from random people!
This is true even if you're (properly) bringing more than 1 ballot because you are returning one for a person with a disability unable to do so themselves!
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Third, people can try to watch what you are doing. However, if watching interferes with voting, then Wis. Stat. 12.13(3)(x) & 12.60 applies: Whoever “interrupt[s] or disturb[s] the voting…proceedings” may be fined up to $1K or imprisoned up to 6 mos or both!
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Timing of results in Wisconsin - a thread:
Summary: Anyone who tells you they know when WI results will come in is not being truthful. Results might be early (11 pm or midnight!) - they might be at the crack of dawn. And nobody knows which.
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Finally, if someone is trying to interrupt voting by interfering with the use of your drop box, notify your municipal clerk immediately (and let the Elections Commission know too!). That behavior shouldn't be tolerated.
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Second, you don't have display anything, or allow an observer to see what you are doing. If you want to block their view, whether with your body or your jacket or whatever, go ahead! Again - nobody's business but yours!
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Similarly, anyone who “by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance, impede[s] or prevent[s] the free exercise of the franchise at an election” is guilty of a Class I felony. Wis. Stat. 12.09(2) & 12.60(1)(a)
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~~~Scam Warning!!! Voters in Marathon county are getting fake calls from someone pretending to be the democratic party and informing them that their poll site is closed tomorrow and that they need to fine a new poll site.
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Absolutely bizarre - two witnesses before the elections committee just claimed that the WEC can't generate a list of who voted in 2020. YES WE CAN. It's through Badger Vote. People buy this list all.the.time. I have no idea what planet these "experts" are living on.
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Decertification is the wish of a losing party cloaked in the language of the constitution while violating every principle of our constitution and our nation. /fin
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@StephenKing
Notting Hill: “I'm also just a girl standing in front of a boy asking him to love her.”
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More helpful info on drop boxes can be found here:
Happy Voting!
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Wisconsin does NOT have duplicate voter #'s -we use zeroes as part of the numbers. e.g. voter # 00096 is DIFFERENT than 096. We know this. It is part of our database. The fact that it "troubles" him is utterly uninteresting and not relevant to any matter relating to elections
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Someone is very confused about what it means to be a *partisan* appointee to a state commission. I'd also point out that I didn't make myself a fake elector in 2016 when Trump won, despite having avidly supported his opponent.
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Tim Michels couldn’t prevent a supposed theft of a Kia right in front of him. He claims he could single-handedly prevent the killings perpetrated by a vigilante in Kenosha. How does that work??
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Why are drop boxes often superior to the mail for absentee ballot return? A thread on Wisconsin’s recent decision to allow clerks to return to their decades-long use of drop boxes for the return of absentee ballots.
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@guttersniper
Came home from a work thing - parked on the street. (Me - middle aged mom). A young woman walked by, crying, with her shoes in her hands. 2 young men were behind her - they looked confused but concerned. I asked her ‘sweetie - Where are you going?” 1/
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@deathbybadger
My dear husband was in the wine/liquor industry. People would say "you must have an amazing wine cellar!" We didn't - we shared everything with friends & family. What joy does a dusty bottle in the basement bring you compared to enjoying it with a delicious meal with friends?
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Let’s discuss the lawsuits that pre-dated the WI Supreme Court rout and how they led to Janet P’s victory. To my eye, the premise of those (many) lawsuits was “if we make it hard/harder to return ballots, it will only affect democrats.” This was proven completely wrong. Why?
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You cannot decertify an election - people who claim otherwise are ridiculous & simply making things up. 1/
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The articles of impeachment filed against WEC administrator Meagan Wolfe are a hodgepodge of conspiracy theories, delusions, lies, and have been debunked multiple times. Yet the republican legislature is going to pretend that this is a serious thing. It’s not. 1/
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Gableman claimed that he was a pollworker at Milwaukee Central Count. This is false - he's not a resident of Milwaukee County and cannot be a poll worker in Milwaukee.
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FYI - Tim Michels has never asked me why I certified the 2020 election, and why the election was trustworthy and accurate.
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Violent rhetoric ("one throat to choke") doesn't belong in discussions of election mgmt. It encourages attacks and violence against elections officials. If you want to "choke" elections officials for doing their job, you don't belong in elected office.
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Hey
@SteveKornacki
- Milwaukee starts counting absentee ballots at 7 am. We cannot TOTAL them until they are all tabulated, which is frequently later in the evening. So we count all day, but can’t announce until they are all counted!
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The sudden interest in democracy and "protecting the votes of 14,00,000 people" coming from Republican trolls is really rich, considering that Trump tried to throw out every single vote in Wisconsin and install himself as president despite having lost.
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I am honored to have been unanimously elected Chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
I recognize WI's outsize role in this year's presidential election, & am confident in the work of our many clerks & Elections Comm. staff in making this our strongest election ever
Democrat Ann Jacobs was unanimously elected chair of the Wisconsin Elections Commission today five months before presidential election in the battleground state.
No other member of the commission was nominated to serve as chair.
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@guttersniper
She could barely tell me - it was her apartment ~ 1 mile away. I told her I would take her home. Also told the young men following her that I had her. They were genuinely relieved - they really didn’t know what to do w/her. 2/
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And why only toss only the presidential election? Why not the elected officials elections themselves (including the ones making this preposterous contention)? Somehow *their* election was legit, but not the presidential. It makes no sense. 9/
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Fact based tweet: Wisconsin did not "take down" or "delete" the voter list. Wisconsin did not "take down" or "delete" anyone's voting history.
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I disagree completely with this statement. The votes were 100% legal - cast by registered voters following all the rules as they then-existed. You don't wish legal votes into illegal by attacking the method of delivery. The GOP had no problem w/drop boxes until Trump Lost.
The quote attributed to me is correct but, much as I don't agree with Trump's stolen election claim, it's not really "false" to say there were "illegal" votes. There were dropboxes and, whether you agree or not, SCOWI held that was illegal. (1/4)
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Since the dawn of our constitutional government in 1787, this has never happened. Because it’s ridiculous. Much like the people advocating for it. It is anti-democratic & anti-American. 12/
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So WISCT said no dropboxes unless at 'alternate voting sites'. Since election officials had already been operating under that rule, it won't change anything for the August primary or November Election. 1/4
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Update! The city of MKE is on top of things, and remains likely (likely!!! Note!) to finish between 11pm-12am. Other central count locations will NOT be as timely. We are expecting Wauwatosa to (wow!) finish by 5 am (holy cats!) and Racine around 12 am to 1 am. (More)
Timing of results in Wisconsin - a thread:
Summary: Anyone who tells you they know when WI results will come in is not being truthful. Results might be early (11 pm or midnight!) - they might be at the crack of dawn. And nobody knows which.
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So - whose votes are being tossed? The claim is some sort of generalized accusation like ‘they used dropboxes so we can overturn the election.’ Dropboxes have been used for decades, including in 2016 when Trump won. And nobody complained then. 7/
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Rejecting well qualified people from state positions is "insanity" and yet here we are.
.
@GovEvers
says it's "insanity" that Senate Republicans could fire more than half of his appointees on the DNR board and Joseph Czarnezki, a Dem appointee to the state Elections Commission, today.
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And which voters used drop boxes? Of course, they have no idea. Because nobody complained about them until Trump lost. ‘Some people used drop boxes so we can toss an entire election’ is a bizarre contention. No different than ‘they used blue ink so we can toss those ballots’ 8/
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Under that theory, every single presidential election could be undone by any legislature saying “votes don’t count - we think our voters were wrong - we want the other guy.” This is literally what the decertification folks are saying. 11/
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@Popehat
My favorite Jury note was from a jury in a juvenile trial when I was a very young PD: "Can't you just yell at [defendant] and send him home?"
PS: I won.
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Not only did the judge throw out every argument trying to prevent use of our envelopes (which have an outstanding redesign for 2024!), he did NOT hold the WEC in contempt as declared by the usual gang of conspiracy theorists. This was a victory for Wisconsin voters!!!
A circuit court judge today struck down a request for the Wisconsin Elections Commission to substantially alter how it handles absentee ballots.
WEC said the request, had it been granted, could have disenfranchised hundreds of thousands
Background:
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WOW - Gableman goes full in crazy conspiracy theory and demands that Wisconsin "Decertify" the election.
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There are very, very few times I agree with Robin Vos. This is one of those rare times.
Amidst recall attempt targeting him, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says hiring former Justice Michael Gableman to review 2020 election was "the biggest mistake since I became speaker"
"I hope eventually he gets disbarred. He should not be an attorney."
THE IVIEW SUN ON UPFRONT...
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First of all, we decide elections based on the # of votes. Nobody who’s claiming the right to ‘decertify’ can explain exactly *which* votes they want to eliminate. Which votes from which municipalities would be excluded from counting. This is, of course 2/
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You used the flag of an extremist group who tried to kidnap MI gov. as a backdrop for a campaign speech, putting yourself on the side of violence & hate. I will advocate for the safety of election workers throughout WI regardless of party affiliation. The question is will you?
Today,
@RebeccaforReal
stood by her comments that voters should have “one throat the choke” when holding election officials accountable.
Dem Chair of WEC
@AnnJacobsMKE
criticized the comment which Kleefisch said is “manufactured outrage for her snowflake followers on Twitter.”
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And we are off to the races! New lawsuit - WEC & Wolfe vs. LeMahieu, Vos, & Kapenga has been filed in Dane County Circuit Court. Requested relief in the tweets that follow. (Not on CCAP yet)
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Farewell WEC Chairmanship - it was an - interesting - 2 years! (I remain on the Commission until 2026)
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Then the certified canvass was provided to the Gov., who completed a certificate of ascertainment (per fed law) which was then sent to DC. There is nowhere in this process that the legislature has a role. All of this process has been dictated by state & fed statute. 6/
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So the chair (me) certified the election after the recount. That’s the job of the WEC chair. It’s not optional - we count and certify. 5/
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My goodness there’s video!!!
Discovery notices--notices informing the court that counsel have turned over evidence for trial--continue to roll in on the Fulton County docket.
Today, Chesebro's team provides an affidavit from a former GA state senator & video from 2020 Trump electors meeting in Wisconsin.
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And - in a non-Wisconsin analysis - why have impeachment if all it takes to remove a president is a state’s legislature deciding to have a ‘we changed our mind and our citizens’ votes mean nothing’ moment? 10/
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Fun WI Tuesday Voting Statistics! Nearly 26% of Wisconsin’s voting-age population turned out to vote, according to unofficial results, the highest level for a Partisan Primary in 40 years! Wow! How fired up are voters? 1/3
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Delighted to report that Wisc. Elections Administrator Meagan Wolfe will retain her position as administrator as we go into the 2024 election cycle. Wisconsin will be well-served by her professionalism and expertise!
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Tim Michels: “We created an entire class of lazy people during covid.”
No, Tim - people DIED from Covid. People were disable from Covid.
What a ghoul.
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The WEC then aggregates all the votes, and the chair certifies the canvass. In 2020, there was a recount of Dane & MKE counties. This occurred prior to the county canvass. Those recounts found *additional* votes for Biden over trump. 4/
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The overt racism by people complaining about their kid not getting into UW Madison is breathtaking. Here's one complaining that they actually allow diverse students to go to college - because that is (somehow) taking away the ability of her Nigel to go to college.
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Because they don’t know. Wisconsin has 1,850 separate voting municipalities. Each municipality canvasses (counts) the votes, then transmits them to the 72 counties. The counties then canvass the vote, and transmit them to the WI Elections Commission. 3/
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A🧵to try to explain the pending deadlines in the Wisconsin Maps case, and why they are so short, and why that timeline is so important! I will be relying on the court’s scheduling order (which is separate from the opinion) which you can find here (1/8):
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Listen to the queen. She is 100% right. This is exactly what I have been saying. Wisconsin is the Petri dish of this vile idea.
They are FINE-TUNING A LEGAL ARGUMENT that purports to allow state legislators to OVERRIDE THE CHOICE OF THE VOTERS.
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Republican lawmakers who want to withdraw WI from ERIC need to explain exactly how we will catch cross-state double voters w/o it.
The answer is, we can't! Basically it's inviting people to double vote because they know they won't be caught. That's a terrible idea.
Republican lawmakers seek to withdraw Wisconsin from group that has caught 'scores' of cases of double voting via
@MollyBeck
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The WI Elections Commission has issued a brief statement that debunks Gableman’s errors and untruths.
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Anyone else wondering who Trump called in Wisconsin to try to criminally overturn our non-fraudulent election?
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If you thought Dan Kelly was a radical right winger, you’re right! This article brings into stark relief how shocking his views are. Some we knew, but not in such stark detail.
Go vote for Judge Janet on 4/4 if you don’t want cruelty on the WI SCT.
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For the pearl clutchers who are pretending they don’t know the Wisconsin law governing RFK Jr’s request to not be on the ballot:
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Wisconsin does NOT allow any processing of absentee ballots before election day. You can't even open the envelopes. This is why you can - and should - expect a late-night report from the central count locations, which include MKE, the largest voting municip. in the state.
It takes Pennsylvania a long time to count votes because the Republican state legislature will not allow early votes to be counted or even pre-canvassed until Election Day. Then right wingers use that legislature-required delay as evidence of something nefarious. It's ridiculous.
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Advocating for the death of Jews is more than a mere college prank. This sort of antisemitism must not be tolerated and those involved need to be held to account.
The UWL College Republicans proudly showed off chalking they did on campus last night. But we have to ask WHY?
What purpose do these hateful chalkings serve but to offend others?
Students should not have to tolerate offensive racist and anti-semitic hate speech on campus!
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Complaining that I pointed out that nazi-types shouting “Jews will not replace us” were worse than being called “deplorables” is not the own you think it is.
#Wisconsin
commissioner Ann Jacobs accused
#Republican
member Bob Spindell of peddling a myth and conspiracy theory when he said he believes the commission is trying to pave the way to keep presidential candidates off the ballot on "character" questions
#trump
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File under “proving the point”: Last week I was accused of making a “nasty” attack on Rep. Brantjen for her election conspiracy theories. Today she subpoenaed “Signature matching . . Equipment” as part of her faux audit. Fun fact! Wisconsin does NOT signature match!
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@VeryBadLlama
It is cheaper to buy a TV on site than to ship one to a convention for a trade show or rent one. Seriously. It’s cheaper to buy it and abandon it.
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The threats to Wisconsin state elections administrator Meagan Wolfe are real and must not be tolerated.
"They're real. They're directed at her ... they are legitimate and being taken seriously by law enforcement..."
Gov. Tony Evers has authorized new security measures for Wisconsin's elections chief ahead of the November 2024 presidential elections
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So you may recall that a person convicted of fraud was a featured speaker @ the assembly's election committee with outrageous claims about voting. The WEC was asked by the legislature to rebut *each and every claim*. So we did.
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It’s true. That is me in a cheesehead.
You can't miss the Wisconsin delegation inside the DNC tonight. They're all wearing cheese heads, including
@WI_Elections
Chair
@AnnJacobsMKE
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So - fun fact! The Myvote website is not - actually - how a ballot is requested! The MyVote site generates an email to your municipal clerk, who then processes your request. Which is why the Myvote system complies with Wis. Stat. 6.86(1)(a)(6)!
Conservative group HOT Govt. is filing a WEC complaint on behalf of Harry Wait, who requested the absentee ballots of
@SpeakerVos
and
@MayorCoryMason
, to prove it could be done.
HOT claims Wait did nothing illegal because it's illegal to let people request ballots online.
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These clerks need to be identified - the WEC
@WI_Elections
has informed clerks *multiple times* of the importance of allowing persons with disabilities to have someone else return their ballots. This needs to stop.
Disabled voters say local election leaders across Wisconsin are not following federal law during early voting in the high-stakes race for state Supreme Court, incorrectly telling them they can't have another person return their absentee ballot for them.
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Gableman sure gets prickly when he thinks Rep. Subeck is questioning his reputation but has no problem impugning the reputation of my fellow commissioners, the WEC administrator, and all the other people he is so unhappy with who worked for/with CTCL, me, and other groups.
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Meagan Wolfe is living rent-free in the heads of the WI republican senate caucus.
They’re very upset she oversaw the admin of one of the most-scrutinized elections in the nation, which was determined to have been accurate, fair and safe.
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When you brag about suppressing votes, you are admitting you suppressed votes. Nothing in his claims says “our message won” or “people came to our side.” It is literally “We made them not vote - hooray!”
@MarkThomsenWI
is absolutely correct. This is beyond the pale.
@WI_Elections
@MarkThomsenWI
@BobSpindell
@AP
"The last thing I want to do is suppress votes," Spindell said.
As for fellow commissioner
@MarkThomsenWI
calling on him to resign, Spindell dismissed it saying it was the "third or fourth time" Thomsen has made such a demand
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@danielmkim
I tell this story frequently: When Milwaukee public schools went to universal lunch I asked my kids about it. “Fewer kids are pretending not to be hungry.” Apparently there was an elaborate ritual at lunch - kids w/o lunch would pretend not to be hungry. 1/
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Update
#2
: I am told Wauwatosa added staff & is now estimating a 12 am finish time!!
Update! The city of MKE is on top of things, and remains likely (likely!!! Note!) to finish between 11pm-12am. Other central count locations will NOT be as timely. We are expecting Wauwatosa to (wow!) finish by 5 am (holy cats!) and Racine around 12 am to 1 am. (More)
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Interestingly, this will (continue) to affect smaller communities more so than larger ones. Larger ones can designate & staff multiple locations for alternate voting sites where people can drop-off ballots. Smaller ones cannot. It's a matter of $. 4/4
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Question of the day: What if I already voted (by mail or in-person absentee) and my candidate of choice dropped out?
Answer: You can contact your clerk and "spoil" your initial ballot and vote a new ballot!
However! 1/6
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However, the court simply decided not to address what disabled persons who cannot personally mail things or travel to their clerk's offices are supposed to do. 2/4
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A bipartisan group of executives speak out in support of the WI Elections Commission offering “sincere gratitude and full support” to Wolfe, the WI Elections Commission and more than 1,800 municipal clerks who run elections in the battleground state.
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@danielmkim
Kids with lunch would then pretend to be full, and offer part of their lunch to the kid w/o. So everyone ate, but nobody ate enough. With universal lunch, everybody ate and was satisfied - as it should be. And also - sometimes kids are amazing and we never see it.
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Second - I want to be very clear on this - the things they are accusing Admin. Wolfe of doing are things the COMMISSION did! With the votes of the Republican members!! Rather than be honest about that, they lie and pretend she did things! 3/
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Judge Simanek just ruled *against* the Trump campaign on every single claim. Joe Biden won Wisconsin. The election was administered in conformance with all applicable laws. The directions of the Elections Comm. were correct. A total vindication of Wisconsin's election.
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People in nursing homes are not required to complete push-polls to exercise their constitutional right to vote. These interrogations by Kardaal are completely irrelevant to whether people have a right to vote. You are allowed to vote for a candidate for any reason you choose.
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@cointreaurian
Fun story: My little law firm gave away a metal straw w/cleaning brush in a small bag @ a conference. The next week, someone called my office to complain we were giving away ���crack pipes” and that was very irresponsible of us.
We had to explain what a reusable straw was.
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So don’t let election deniers tell you that if the count isn’t in by X o’clock it means fraud. It does not. It just means the count isn’t done!!!
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“Revolting” “Repulsive” “Disgusting” - our Governor understands what it means to have nazis walking the streets of Madison.
My full statement regarding the neo-Nazi demonstration that occurred in Madison today.
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If someone who knows better refers to the "democrat" party instead of the Democratic Party, you can know with 100% confidence that they are not acting in good faith.
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You can’t make this up: The subpoenas to Madison and Green Bay seek voting machine serial numbers, information about computer software updates and communications with Dominion Voting Systems — even though the two cities do not use that company's devices.
The subpoenas to Madison and Green Bay seek voting machine serial numbers, information about computer software updates and communications with Dominion Voting Systems — even though the two cities do not use that company's devices.
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