Impeachment articles drafted by five Republican lawmakers seeking to remove Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator
Meagan Wolfe from her job contain more than a dozen misleading and false statements that misrepresent Wolfe’s role and regurgitate election disinformation.by Republican Reps. Janel Brandtjen of Menomonee Falls, Scott Allen of Waukesha, Elijah Behnke of Oconto, Ty Bodden of Hilbert and Chuck Wichgers of Muskego, claims Wolfe was directly responsible for decisions made by elections commissioners and falsely ties her to debunked election lies.
The Republicans in their impeachment resolution blamed Wolfe for actions commissioners voted to take during the COVID-19 pandemic — a time when health officials were advising people to avoid crowds. Some actions the commissioners took in 2020 were legally unchallenged but have since been deemed illegal."She's not the election cop," said Ann Jacobs, one of six election commissioners."Only the commission can issue orders.
Again, Wolfe did not make this decision but instead followed guidance from commissioners that advised clerks to ignore a state law that required special voting deputies make two attempts to visit facilities and provide assistance before sending residents absentee ballots.
While technically correct, the lawmakers added more than 3.5 million inactive voters — people who are dead, move to another state or are in any other way deemed ineligible to vote — to the number of active voters to reach an inaccurate and misleading figure.Furthermore, neither the WEC nor Wolfe is responsible for removing voters who may have moved from the rolls, as the lawmakers claim in Article 13.
Most of the funds were directed to Wisconsin’s five largest cities — Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha and Racine, where Democratic voters are concentrated. Notably, local municipal governments voted to accept the funding, not the WEC.on nearly a half-dozen occasions to claim local clerks’ decisions to accept private grants and outside consultants for state elections administration was illegal.
The lawmakers claimed Zapata’s ability to request the ballots was evidence of Wolfe’s maladministration. But Zapata, 45, wasand charged with felony misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of making a false statement to obtain an absentee ballot.
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