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Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Visit Arizona Election Audit, Say Similar Review Needed in Their State

ThinkCivics Newswire by ThinkCivics Newswire
June 16, 2021
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Wisconsin GOP Lawmakers Visit Arizona Election Audit, Say Similar Review Needed in Their State

Maricopa County ballots cast in the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors working for Florida-based company, Cyber Ninjas, Thursday, May 6, 2021 at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix. The audit, ordered by the Arizona Senate, has the U.S. Department of Justice saying it is concerned about ballot security and potential voter intimidation arising from the unprecedented private recount of the 2020 presidential election results. (AP Photo/Matt York, Pool)

Two Wisconsin GOP state lawmakers said that Wisconsin should authorize a Nov. 3 election audit similar to the one that’s being conducted in Maricopa County, Arizona, after they traveled to the county to observe.

State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, a Republican who chairs the Campaigns and Elections Committee, said that a review of the election was needed due to the significant amount of private funding that was used in several major cities in Wisconsin, according to WisPolitics. However, the lawmaker said she wasn’t sure if the Wisconsin Legislative Audit Bureau has that authority.

“Listen, we need to restore integrity as we have huge numbers of individuals that have questions about a process that’s become highly politicized,” Brandtjen said of the election procedures in the state. President Joe Biden was certified as the winner during the 2020 election.

Wisconsin Rep. Dave Murphy told the local news website that he believes Wisconsin should conduct a similar audit, while asserting that mainstream media outlets have distorted the audit.

Over the past several weeks, auditors have been reviewing 2.1 million ballots cast in Maricopa County, which has drawn scrutiny from not only media outlets, but from the U.S. Department of Justice.

“I think the press is trying to spin it in a different direction. It feels like they’re always trying to spin it in the most devious type of way that they possibly can,” Murphy told WisPolitics. In an interview with the Journal-Sentinel, Murphy said that he had to gain the approval of Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, a Republican, before going on the trip to Arizona last weekend.

The assemblyman added that he met with the CEO of Florida-based firm CyberNinjas, which is leading the audit, while in Arizona.

“This was a very buttoned-down operation,” Murphy said. “The precision and security that I saw there was unbelievable.”

Maricopa County’s auditors started their review at Veterans Memorial Coliseum in May, which also includes the elections systems and voting machines. Auditors, who said they expect to complete their work by the end of June, said they would produce a report about their findings, and some Arizona state Republicans have vowed to take action should any irregularities be found.

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A file photo shows an election voter collecting the count from a voting machine in a file photo of the Nov. 3 election in Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
 

Democrats, including Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, have continually decried the Arizona audit, saying it is unorthodox and partisan.

“The procedures have continued to change,” Hobbs, a Democrat, said in a Sunday interview. “The adherence to security practices has been very lax.”

In late May, Vos told local media outlets that he will hire three retired law enforcement officials to investigate the state’s election process, adding that they will work with an Assembly committee with investigatory powers.

“We need to have a fact basis to continue to show the public in Wisconsin that, number one, we continue to take these irregularities seriously, and that at the end of the day, the laws that we proposed are based on facts in addition to anecdotes,” Vos told the Wisconsin State Journal last month.

After returning from Arizona, Murphy said that those three investigators hired by Vos will only answer to the speaker and his aides—not the Assembly Elections Committee.

“On the one hand I have to give the speaker credit for bringing in the three investigators and the attorney to oversee that,” he said in a radio interview. “On the other hand, they are in charge of that operation, not our committee.”

Republicans have, since the conclusion of the November election, said that outside groups—including the partially Mark Zuckerberg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life—provided support in some of Wisconsin’s largest cities. Five of the biggest cities received some $6.3 million from the Center for Tech and Civic Life, Republicans have said, while suggesting that the organization is partisan in nature and needs to be investigated.

The Epoch Times has contacted Vos’s office about the possibility of a similar election audit being conducted in Wisconsin.

President Joe Biden was certified as the winner of Wisconsin’s 11 electoral votes over former President Donald Trump by a slim margin during the 2020 contest.

This article was originally published by the Epoch Times. Read the original article.

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