Fake Trump Elector Now On Track To Take Over Wisconsin Elections Commission

[hardyweinberg]

@birdford

The SCOTUS says this kind of political fuckery is perfectly fine.

for republicans

[socalista]

Spring of 2014

[Hatmama]

I am sorry that I have not been following this Wisconsin Dirty Dealing better. But, I want to provide other important information that has been missing in the news:

Republican Dean Knudson Resigns Election Commission

[Scoutmom]

@socalista

Seriously, think about it. If 2018 was record-breaking that right there tells you it was anomalous . Again, WI voters didn’t start voting until it was too late .

How far back?

@socalista

Offhand, 2014 turnout was ~11%. I’m not in the mood to go dig out links for every Wisconsin election. You only looked at Presidential. Wisconsin holds elections every year

Turnout was highest for midterm election in at least 64 years

2010 - Wisconsin’s 2010 turnout was 49.7 percent of voting-age adults.

No single digits anywhere. Maybe because the governor’s race matches the mid-terms?

[Hatmama]

Here is the Guardian article – two years ago – and many in Wisconsin have been saying it for a while longer, and since:

Wisconsin is starting to resemble a failed state | Nathan Robinson

If you want a view of Milwaukee’s perspective, check out Urban Milwaukee, a somewhat new game in newstown:

https://urbanmilwaukee.com/

[socalista]

Need to check off-year elections. There was one a few years ago but by the Wisconsinites were turning out. The timeframe I remember seeing low turnout was when the GOP took over the state legislature and judges were also cycled out – soon after the 2008 financial crisis. A lot of this happened in off-year elections, and Wisconsin was one of several states where I recall seeing that. I’d actually have to dig a bit to even find these off-year elections. Some were also held in Spring of election years. Michigan does that too – shoving local initiative votes, for example, onto what’s otherwise a primary

[mymy]

I have heard that DOJ is going after these fake electors…

[darrtown]

@jwbuho

It feels like something is missing from here (unless I missed it): The chair may be a Trumper, but does that mean that the other Republicans on the committee are as well?

I think one member got “told” to quit so that the fake elector could waltz in and be at trumps beck n call. Follow the money.

[Scoutmom]

@socalista

I’d actually have to dig a bit to even find these off-year elections.

Define off-year. That chart aligns with mid-terms. Spring/“off year”? Other than local school board or county elections what possible statewide elections are you referring to that would have any sort of impact?

You keep saying you recall it but have to dig. We’re waiting to see what statewide election you feel was the cause of what we have now.

[socalista]

@Scoutmom

Define off-year. That chart aligns with mid-terms. Spring/“off year”?

Here’s that recent off-year election. It was in Spring of 2019 and included one State Supreme Court seat. Turnout was 27% per Wikipedia, but as I say by then Wisconsonites were turning out to vote. You have to kinda already know when these were held or who was elected to find records of them

[sonsofares]

Otherwise, he’s the bravest man you’ll ever meet.

[Hatmama]

You know, when I left Wisconsin, (2012) my four wards were running a voter turnout of about 95% for ten years running, and that included all the primaries. In Presidential Year elections, it was a 98% turnout.

I’m starting to think that all the voters in my wards were showing up to see me in action!! (hahaha)
But, I do have to say, in my polling place, we (and it was the professional, helpful, and accommodating actions of the poll workers there, and the voters,) really ran a tight ship, and we had a reunion party as well. We took the position that Voting was a Right, for every eligible, registered person, and if someone was not registered, we took care of that, too, and then gave them their ballot.

Because I like to test reality, I checked the voting turnout for all of Milwaukee County (my Wards were included in this tally) for the 2022 Spring Election: a Piss-Poor 29%.

I am gobsmacked (not in a good way.) I think I would have to say I am GOPsmacked.

[socalista]

Another of these was held in April 2009.

Wikipedia reports 793,864 total votes were cast in the statewide election for a State Supreme Court seat.

Here’s the official Wisconsin results page:
https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/results/2009/spring-election

[Hatmama]

Sorry, link failed: The requested page could not be found.

[Scoutmom]

@socalista

Here’s the official Wisconsin results page:
https://elections.wi.gov/elections-voting/results/2009/spring-election

The link is not found. But 2009 was for Shirley Abrahamson, at the time Chief Justice of the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, and had been serving as a justice for 30 years. There was no candidate to even touch her.

She was a liberal, by the way. I’m still not seeing where “single digit turnouts” destroyed the state. Those rare elections you refer to would have been for a single individual.

Done with this.

[socalista]

Right. My point. One reason it’s not easy to just google up these turnout figures for Wisconsin’s off-year elections is that the state itself has deleted most of them.

[socalista]

@Scoutmom

The link is not found

Exactly. The state’s deleted most of the off-year election data. Frustrating, isn’t it? But maybe that makes more clear why it’s a hassle to find this information

@Scoutmom

She was a liberal, by the way

Yes. A re-elected incumbent. She’s unique in being the longest-serving something or other and that was the only reason I was even able to find anything still online about this off-year election.

@Scoutmom

Those rare elections

Not sure how rare they are since most all of them have been deleted from the official pages. However, I recall seeing them not long after the financial meltdown in 2008. Wisconsin still holds these off-year elections so I think they’re routine

[news247]

“It’s not a lie if you believe it” - George Constanza

The GQP Motto

[choska]

I appreciate how deeply corrupt, and determined, Republicans are. They are putting people in place who will simply declare the Republican candidate the winner regardless of the outcome of the vote. If they have to “invalidate” votes from the blue parts of Wisconsin they’ll simply do that and dare someone to do something about it.

[sparrowhawk]

@lastroth

Ya’ll are missing this part, or are discounting it:

While Spindell indicated in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel earlier this week that he doesn’t necessarily support dissolving the WEC, he claimed Gableman’s review was important because Republicans “feel” t hat something was wrong with the 2020 election .

This! This! This is what’s wrong with Trumpers, Republicans, and a bunch of folks in this country! They feel that something is wrong, or off, or out of whack, but for the life of them they can not articulate it.

Yeah, that jumped out at me. It’s like “the toddler is throwing his temper-tantrum. Better give him his ice cream because he feels the world is wrong and that’s the only thing that will make it right!”