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Elections Commission Dismisses False Electors Complaint

Frederica Freyberg:

In election news related to 2020, the state elections commission this week dismissed a complaint filed over Republican electors who certified to the U.S. Senate that Donald Trump won Wisconsin. The WEC ruled the Republican electors did not act illegally but were legitimately trying to preserve Trump’s legal standing.

Also this week, Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos again rejected calls to decertify President Joe Biden’s win in Wisconsin after meeting privately Wednesday with advocates for such decertification.

Robin Vos:

There are some people who think the legislature has the unilateral ability to overturn the election. We do not. Constitutional scholars like Rick Esenberg, Jim Troupis, Donald Trump’s own attorney in Wisconsin said we do not have that power. I still believe that today.