Posted on 08/26/2023 7:08:41 AM PDT by george76
Wisconsin is a 6-2 Republican state in Congress but somehow Democrats keep winning the statewide offices.
Guest post by Jefferson Davis Madison – Just when it was thought that democrats had already reached an all-time low involving election integrity in Wisconsin, they have now apparently decided to collectively reach a new low when they appear to have decided they don’t have to follow any state election statutes involving the appointment process of an Administrator of Elections.
The Gateway Pundit has previously covered this developing story
The current Administrator of Elections in Wisconsin served a 4-year term through June 30th that started in 2019 confirmed by the Senate.
The Administrator of Elections is nominated to serve a 4-year term by the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) and is ultimately confirmed by the Wisconsin State Senate per Wisconsin State Statute 15.61 .
State Statute 15.61 is without any ambiguity and is abundantly clear what the legal and constitutional process is to appoint an Administrator of Elections.
The current Administrator of Elections’ 4-year term ended on June 30, 2023.
The current Administrator of Elections has been the subject of ongoing scrutiny and criticism for several years with what some believe is the unethical and perhaps criminal administration of elections and have repeatedly asked for her resignation as well as firings for some Staff Members.
Probably one of the most egregious examples of the unethical administration of elections by the current Administrator of Elections was during the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin with what some have said was the unforgiveable processing of absentee ballots in long term care facilities including veteran homes in a statewide race supposedly decided by 20,682 voters.
The Administrator of Elections also received a scathing review from the Office of Special Counsel in 2022, who investigated the administration of elections for the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin, which ultimately recommended Wisconsin’s 10 Electoral College Votes should be reclaimed until it could be officially and legally determined if the election fraud affected the outcome of the election in a statewide race supposedly decided by 20,682 votes.
To make matters even worse for the Administrator of Elections, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in July of 2022 that the 2020 Presidential Election results were “illegitimate” due mainly in part to the Administrator of Elections who did not follow the law causing “harm and injury” to voters when she approved the Zuckerberg absentee ballot drop boxes that had hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots deposited into them for a statewide race supposedly decided by 20,682 votes (click –Frontsheet (wicourts.gov)).
The Governor’s Office fully supports the current Administrator of Elections. The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), 3 republicans and 3 democrats approved by the Senate, held an emergency meeting near the end of June to make a recommendation on the position of Administrator of Elections for a new 4-year term as prescribed in State Statute 15.61.
The 3 liberal progressive democrats thought they had outsmarted the 3 republicans and the voters of Wisconsin when they abstained from voting on the recommendation.
The 3 republicans, by following the law and their sworn-oath-of-office responsibilities, unanimously voted (3-0) in the majority to reappoint the Administrator of Elections for a new 4-year term to end on June 30, 2027, to move the process forward to the Senate for confirmation as expressed in Statute 15.61.
The Senate Republicans, anticipating that democrats would be democrats when they always appear to cry wolf and threaten lawsuits if they don’t get their way, were proactive and had hired outside legal counsel to review the Statutes to make sure they were on solid ground constitutionally and legally by fulfilling their statutory duties of confirming or denying the appointment of the Administrator of Elections.
In many respects, it seems like Wisconsin voters almost always have to anticipate 3rd grade playground behavior when it comes to democrats not being able to get their liberal and progressive way with legislation and administrative appointments.
Democrats appear to almost always run to the courts to do workarounds of the law costing taxpayers time, money and lots of resources when it would have been much simpler to just follow the law.
Senate Republicans had finally had enough from the democrats and unanimously passed; republicans control the Wisconsin Senate 22-11, SR 3 in late June to start the process of appointing an Administrator of Elections.
The Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection then scheduled a Public Hearing for Tuesday, August 29th, 10:01 A.M., Room 411 South, State Capitol (click here – 2023 Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection (wisconsin.gov)) to provide for the current Administrator of Elections to answer questions why she should be reappointed and to give the public an opportunity to provide testimony.
The Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection will vote in Executive Session after the August 29th Hearing and before Labor Day to make their recommendation of approving or disapproving of WEC’s nomination of the current Administrator of Elections to the full Wisconsin Senate.
The Wisconsin Senate will hopefully vote during the September 12–21, 2023, Floor Session, to approve or disapprove the Senate Committee’s recommendation on the position of Administrator of Elections.
If a vacancy occurs, State Statute 15.61 then prescribes that an Interim Administrator of Elections would be appointed for up to a year by the Joint Committee on Legislation Organization (JCLO) after a 45-day period.
It is possible that a new Administrator of Elections could be appointed as early as November 1, 2023.
Of course, democrats being democrats, will automatically file a lawsuit in hopes of confusing the issue and keeping the current Administrator of Elections in place indefinitely in hopes of repeating the disaster of 2020 for 2024 while securing Wisconsin 10 Electoral College Votes.
In a breath-taking maneuver, that is beyond stupefying, the democrats, the Attorney General and the Administrator of Elections have corroborated to collectively tell the voters of Wisconsin that the Administrator of Elections doesn’t have to follow any statutory and or election laws when it comes to the appointment of the Administrator of Elections.
The democrat Attorney General, of liberal progressive Perkins Coie, LLC, DC law firm fame (click here – Rep. Allen: Asks if Attorney General Josh Kaul was aware – WisPolitics), represents the Administrator of Elections at taxpayer expense and unapologetically states the following regarding the state statutes and the Senate involving the appointment of the Administrator of Elections:
Wisconsin Senate has no “authority” to confirm or reject the appointment of the Administrator of Elections in spite of what State Statute 15.61 authorizes the Senate to do. The AG also states that in his opinion, the Senate not having any authority is “…not a close question under state law.”
The Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection needs to cancel their scheduled Hearing component for the consideration of the Administrator of Elections on Tuesday, August 29th.
Administrator of Elections has been advised by the AG not to attend the Senate Hearing on Tuesday, August 29th.
WEC’s unanimous vote (3-0) in late June to reappoint the Administrator of Elections for a new 4-year term is not sufficient under state law.
The AG’s opinion is that the Administrator of Elections should remain indefinitely under the current circumstances.
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The back-and-forth with the democrats on the administration of elections and the Administrator of Elections position has been the subject of many articles, votes and media coverage for years for the same reasons that are ongoing in 2023.
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What’s the Endgame?
This must be immediately corrected by the Wisconsin Senate before the 2024 election cycle to avoid a repeat of the disaster of 2020.
Wisconsin and America cannot continue to have elections being administered under the fog and or suspicion of election fraud that may affect the outcome of elections especially in a state supposedly decided by 20,682 votes with 10 Electoral College Votes.
The appointment of a new Administrator of Elections will go a long way to restore the confidence in our elections who will simply follow the law and exercise their administrative statutory authority to do the right thing without interference from outside liberal progressive influences.
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Godspeed to protect and preserve our beautiful constitutional representative republic through election integrity.
“suspicion of election fraud”
BWAAAA HAAAAA ...o man , if we can’t even say it plainly, how are we ever going to fix it .
They got away with it without any repercussions whatsoever.
So why is it any surprise they just do what they want now?
Until this gets before SCOTUS, it will continue to happen. With the slow justice system, by the time it makes it to SCOTUS, Democrats will already have packed the court.
We can’t, it appears. The Coup d’etat continues unchallenged.
I’m already scouting properties in West Virginia.
That is really confusing . Why did the 3 Republicans vote to re-appoint , while the Democrats abstained, if the administrator of elections is carrying water for the Democrats? Why did the radical AG decide that vote was meaningless? Wisconsin aline, at least until the Republicans lost control of Wisc. Supreme Court several momths ago, at least was able to fight back, as Sen. Johnson otherwise would have been defeated by vote fraud in 2022.
ping to you
They just keep cranking it up... And the pubs do nothing.
Ping
Sorry. I have to do a LOT of fact checking before in believe anything in a Jim Hoft, GP story. He’s a known fibber.
Openly Breaking the Law.
It’s a democrat trade mark always has been.
Where are you going to fact check? WAPO, NYT, CNN,THE Hill, Politico, Newsweek, the Atlantic, or do you have to ad the disclaimer to everything as Gateway Pundits fibs are minor comparatively?
A while back someone responded to me ….. Wisconsin would be Wyoming if it weren’t for Milwaukee and Madison
fraud is rampant in that state.
Add to the fact that the Wisconsin legislature is almost a Veto Proof Republican majority. I think the Senate is veto proof and the state House is one or two seats shy. So it’s really kind of interesting how how the state is considered BLUE when it’s really RED.
Oh bull.
Fake news. When GP is wrong they post prominent retractions and that’s not often. MMSM doesn’t bother to retract or puts the retraction in tiny type at the bottom with spin.
The thing Gateway Pundit does that I don’t like is to add hype words to their story title. It doesn’t make the story fake but it is off putting.
The article you wanted to fact check would be easy to research. There are links in the later half of the article to all the prominent public exchanges.
that was probably me that said that. Wisconsin is very dark to light red, except for Milwaukee/Madison. Madison has a turnout machine and the Univserity towns crank out the ballots.
**Democrats are brazenly breaking the law**
Democrats have brazenly shown who they are. The democratic party is.. And has been.. The commie party.
Look at what they do.. Are..
They want the constitution thrown out
Disagreers jailed.
Freedom of speech is not free
Everything America has stood for, they change.
They are lawless..
Onband on...
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