Wisconsin Republicans trying to recall Robin Vos face new challenge despite signature victory – Washington Examiner
A group of advocates supporting Donald Trump successfully gathered enough valid signatures to initiate a recall effort against Wisconsin Assembly Leader Robin Vos, a Republican. However, the legalities of whether the recall should proceed under new or old legislative district maps remain unresolved. Wisconsin’s recent redistricting, declared necessary by a Supreme Court decision against previous gerrymandered maps, has introduced discrepancies in the signature count required for a recall under the new district boundaries. The Wisconsin Elections Commission is faced with deciding the appropriate district for the recall, as the state Supreme Court has not provided guidance. Meanwhile, Vos contends that the signature count falls short and raises concerns about the timeline and authenticity of the collected signatures. The controversy extends to Vos’s political actions, particularly his acknowledgment of the 2020 election results, his criticisms of Trump, and his refusal to leverage legislative powers for certain political moves, sparking discontent among some constituents.
A group of pro-Trump advocates filed enough valid signatures to recall Wisconsin Assembly Leader Robin Vos, a Republican, but the fight isn’t over.
Legal questions remain unanswered about whether signatures to recall Vos should be gathered under Wisconsin’s new legislative maps or the old district that voted him into office.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission found the group filed enough valid signatures to trigger a recall of the Republican leader of Wisconsin’s lower chamber. The same group tried to recall him earlier this year, but the majority of the signatures were deemed invalid.
Still, there may be a discrepancy, as Wisconsin recently implemented new legislative maps following the Wisconsin Supreme Court declaring previous gerrymandered maps unconstitutional.
WEC asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to clarify whether the recall election should take place in the old district or the new district, but the court declined to offer clarity. The state’s high court recommended that a bipartisan WEC panel decide if the recall will take place in the district Vos was elected to represent in 2022 or if it should be held in Vos’s new district.
Vos was elected to represent the old 63rd Assembly District but now represents Wisconsin’s 33rd Assembly District. The group would need 7,195 signatures to meet recall law in the new 33rd Assembly District, and what it submitted falls short by about 945 votes, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Vos still believes the group is short, as the group collected signatures outside of the allowed time frame.
“We also raised serious fraud allegations that were not refuted by the Recall Vos committee or addressed in the WEC staff report,” Vos said. “We are confident they have not met the threshold for recall and will present our argument to the commission on Thursday.”
The group is unhappy with Vos for his refusal to deny election results in Wisconsin in 2020, his criticisms of former President Donald Trump, and his refusal to use legislative power to impeach WEC nonpartisan administrator Meagan Wolfe. The group has also floated conspiracies that Vos is “deeply aligned with the CCP,” claiming he has taken in money from the Chinese Communist Party.
Vos hired, then later fired, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman to investigate election results in Wisconsin. Gableman has emerged in the second round of signature gathering as a leader of the “Recall Vos” movement, alongside petitioner Matthew Snorek.
Snorek has said the first recall attempt was “sabotaged” and “infiltrated by outsiders from New York and Florida.”
Vos has called the group “whack jobs and morons” for its inability to gather enough valid signatures, as well as finding 400 duplicated signatures, missing and misspelled information, and his own name signed on the recall.
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If WEC determines a recall is valid, it will be held on Aug. 6, but if more than two candidates run, the primary will be held on Aug. 6, and a recall election will be held on Sept. 3.
Vos has been a member of the Wisconsin Assembly since 2005 and has been speaker of the Assembly since 2013, making him the longest-serving speaker in Wisconsin Assembly history.
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