Head of Wisconsin Assembly Issues Subpoenas for 2020 Election

After observing the Arizona audit, Wisconsin is moving forward with a comprehensive audit.

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Republican issues subpoenas for Wisconsin election info

The head of the Assembly’s elections committee has issued subpoenas for election materials, including ballots and voting machines, from two Wisconsin counties in what she calls a “top-to-bottom” investigation of the 2020 presidential results

By Todd Richmnd, Associated Press, August 5, 2021:

Republican Rep. Janel Brandtjen said she has sent subpoenas to Milwaukee and Brown counties for election materials. Brandtjen said last month that she wanted to conduct a review similar to a widely discredited audit performed in Arizona. Brandtjen and other Wisconsin Republicans traveled to that state in June to observe the review.

“Legislators have been hearing from thousands of disgruntled constituents regarding their concerns with the November 2020 election,” Brandtjen said in a news release.

Former President Donald Trump has been pressuring Wisconsin Republicans to take a closer look at the presidential results in the state, which Joe Biden won by about 20,000 votes.

No one has produced any evidence of widespread election fraud in Wisconsin and Biden’s victory withstood a partial recount Trump ordered in Milwaukee and Dane counties, both Democratic strongholds.

Still, Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has hired private investigators to review the results and the Legislature Audit Bureau has launched its own investigation. Vos said last month he doesn’t know what a third review would prove and wouldn’t commit to giving Brandtjen any additional resources.

Brandtjen said she welcomes both probes. But Wisconsin residents have objected to the audit bureau review because it’s taking too long and she wants to give people a “transparent, full, cyber-forensic audit,” she said.

“The clock is ticking as the 2022 elections will commence in just a matter of months,” she said.

Republicans have heavily criticized Milwaukee and Brown County’s election procedures.

They’ve questioned why Milwaukee officials didn’t release results until the early morning after Election Day. They’ve also accused Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich of ceding authority over the election to Facebook-funded consultant Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, questioning why Genrich handed over keys to the city’s central ballot counting location to him.

The subpoenas demand that Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson and Brown County Clerk Patrick Moynihan appear before the committee on Sept. 7 and bring along all ballots cast in the presidential elections in the counties, including mail-in, provisional and physical ballots.

They also must turn over all their tabulation equipment, software, images taken from their election management servers, routers and networking equipment, all absentee ballot logs, media used to transfer data such as flash drives and external hard drives, lists of all internet addresses used at any location where election equipment was used, names of voters and their addresses and birthdates and dats and times equipment was certified.

Brandtjen didn’t immediately return a message asking how she will cover the costs of reviewing all that data since Vos said he wouldn’t give her any additional resources.

Christenson and Moynihan didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Brown County Deputy Executive Jeff Flynt said the county had received the subpoena and was reviewing it.

Assembly Democratic Minority Leader Gordon Hintz didn’t immediately return messages.

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