3-4-22 gableman report react

The  Republican-hired investigator of Wisconsin’s 2020 election says his interim report released this week is just the beginning.   Michael Gableman’s 136 page report comes amid a nationwide GOP effort to reshape elections following president Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump.   Gableman told the Assembly Elections committee this week he plans to have another report soon focusing on indefinately confined voters.   League of Women Voters of Wisconsin executive director Debra Cronmiller says she disagrees with Gableman’s contention that most Wisconsin residents don’t have faith in the election system.  “We know what our clerk’s do, we know our neighbors,  we know who’s voting.  Time and time again, election after election,  the integrity of the election has never been questioned,”  Cronmiller told WFDL news.  Cronmiller says the report tends to call out that somehow there’s a wrong in trying to encourage people to vote.  “By somehow encouraging people to vote we’re doing something unlawful,”  Cronmiller said.  “This 102 year old organization, the League of Women Voters,  has made it it’s purpose to engage voters, to turn them out, to make sure they are motivated to vote.”   The editor of WisPolitics.com J.R. Ross says what was striking was Gableman’s call for the legislature to “take a hard look” at decertifying the state’s electoral votes for Joe Biden, even though the state’s nonpartisan attorneys say that would be illegal.  “That Gableman put all the focus on that rather than anything else.  Whether that was his intention we don’t know, but it overshadows everything else,”  Ross told WFDL news.  Ross says the concern from people he has talked to at the capitol on both sides  is that the taxpayer funded investigation “was stacked.”   “The office was stacked with people who were either pro-Trump or already expressed allegations the election had been stolen in 2020.”  ” It was never given a foundation of impartiality to start with.”