Wisconsin Republicans Plot To Oust Elections Chief

CNN reports:

Wisconsin Republicans, after a string of losses in hotly contested statewide races, are taking steps toward sidelining the state’s nonpartisan elections chief and undercutting the new liberal majority on the state Supreme Court. Their actions – an escalation of bitter, partisan feuds that have rankled the state government in one of the nation’s most important swing states for years – raise questions about how the 2024 election will be run there and who will set the rules.

With a new supermajority, Republicans in the state Senate are moving to fire Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission who continues to be the target of false conspiracy theories about the 2020 election. Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was hired by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to review the state’s 2020 election, has frequently targeted Wolfe, including mocking the way she dressed.

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