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Republican Sen. Kathy Bernier, a former Chippewa County clerk and chair of the Senate elections committee, is retiring after 12 years in the Legislature. She took intense criticism for defending local clerks’ elections performance and questioning Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ decision to hire former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to investigate the election. Gableman called on her to resign. “It just seemed to me something had to be said and something had to be done,” she said. “After getting the slings and arrows from people in my own caucus . . . they came to realize there was nothing...

MADISON, Wis. — The special counsel investigating Wisconsin's 2020 election said Tuesday that the state Legislature should "take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020" presidential election. The release of investigator Michael Gableman's 136-page "interim report" comes amid a nationwide GOP effort to reshape elections following President Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump. The report was met with bipartisan criticism. Republican Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke immediately rejected the call to decertify the election, saying it was a "fool's errand." "Still not legal under Wisconsin law," Steineke tweeted. "Beyond that, it would have no practical...