They Cried Foul On The 2020 Election — Then Advised Wisconsin’s Top Election Officials – By Matt Shuham (Huffpost) / Aug 12, 2023
Right-wing activists were selected by election officials to give input on policy that could have big implications for 2024.
When Wisconsin’s top election officials were considering drafting new rules for election observers earlier this year, they formed an advisory committee comprising representatives from the major parties, nonpartisan clerks from across the state — and right-wing activists who called the legitimacy of the 2020 election into question.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission, the state’s top election body, which is made up of three Democrats and three Republicans, is expected to consider the committee members’ input on draft rules for election observers — volunteers who watch the voting process and can raise concerns to polling place managers — when it meets next month.
But the committee, which gathered for more than 12 hours in total across two meetings in March and June, carried the marks of a brutal 2020 election. True the Vote, the conspiracy theory organization that falsely claims an army of “2000 mules” stole the election for Joe Biden, was represented on the committee by a local Republican who previously had said Wisconsin elections were “being conducted by lawless groups of individuals.” Another seat at the table went to the Wisconsin Election Integrity Network — a local affiliate of a national, Donald Trump-backed group of the same name whose leader has said of Democrats, “The only way they win is to cheat.”
