{"id":2028584,"date":"2023-09-11T20:33:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-senate-committee-recommends-firing-top-election-official-from-2020\/"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:33:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T00:33:45","slug":"wisconsin-senate-committee-recommends-firing-top-election-official-from-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-senate-committee-recommends-firing-top-election-official-from-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Senate panel advises dismissing 2020&#8217;s top election official."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-senate-committee-recommends-firing-top-election-official-from-2020%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2028584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Uncertain \u2063Future \u200cof Wisconsin&#8217;s Top Election Official<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2063 future for a\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arizona-ag-rejects-secretary-of-states-call-for-probe-of-gop-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trump-ends-negotiations-with-nancy-pelosi-on-coronavirus-relief\/\" title=\"Donald Trump Ends Negotiations with Nancy Pelosi on Coronavirus Relief\">led<\/a>-maricopa-county-vote-audit\/&#8221; title=&#8221;Arizona AG Rejects Secretary of State\u2019s Call for Probe of GOP-Led Maricopa County Vote Audit&#8221;>top election official<\/a> in Wisconsin\u200c remains uncertain after a Republican-led Wisconsin committee recommended\u2063 Meagan Wolfe&#8217;s removal ahead of a full Senate vote that \u2063could come this week.<\/p>\n<p>The state Senate elections committee voted 3-1\u2063 along\u2064 party lines against reappointing the\u200b nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections\u200c Commission administrator on Monday.<\/p>\n<h3>Republican Investigation Deemed a &#8216;Total Bust&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>Wolfe, who has led the agency since 2018, has been\u2062 a target for \u2062Republican lawmakers\u2063 following former President Donald Trump&#8217;s 2020\u200d election loss, \u2064where he and his GOP\u200d allies claimed he won in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In June, the Wisconsin Elections Commission was deadlocked \u2064on Wolfe&#8217;s renomination, with \u2064Democratic members citing a 2022 state Supreme \u2064Court ruling\u200b that allows officers to stay in their role indefinitely if\u2063 they do not step down when their term expires.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP-led state Senate announced they would hold a vote regardless of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-approval-drops-to-lowest-point-in-four-years\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Approval Drops To Lowest Point In Four Years\">highest court\u2019<\/a>s ruling, with the removal recommendation\u200d on Monday indicating she\u2019ll likely be fired as her confirmation\u200d is not expected \u200dto pass in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of August, a Senate committee \u2063heard public testimony regarding Wolfe\u2019s appointment, where \u2062the Republicans&#8217; rift with election officials over the outcome of the 2020 election \u2063was touched on.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI believe\u2062 it is fair \u2062to\u200b say that no election in Wisconsin\u2062 history has been as scrutinized, reviewed, investigated and reinvestigated as\u2064 much as the November 2020 general election,\u201d \u200cWolfe wrote in June \u200dto legislators.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe outcome of all those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-senate-committee-recommends-firing-top-election-official-from-2020\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Senate panel advises dismissing 2020's top election official.\">2020 probes produced essentially<\/a> the same results: the identification of a relatively\u2062 small number of suggestions for procedural improvements, with no\u200b findings of wrongdoing or significant fraud,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans assigned former conservative \u2063Wisconsin Supreme \u200bCourt Justice Michael \u200cGableman to take charge of an investigation, which spanned over a year, into 2020 election results, leading to no evidence of fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElection officials cannot\u2062 carry the burden of educating the \u2062public on elections \u2063alone, we need the assistance of people in power, like yourselves, to help us\u200b show how Wisconsin elections administration\u200c is strong, \u2062fair, and accurate,\u201d Wolfe concluded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">CLICK HERE TO READ \u2062MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fate of Wisconsin&#8217;s top election official, Meagan Wolfe, is uncertain as a Republican-led committee suggests her removal. The state Senate elections committee voted 3-1 along party lines against reappointing Wolfe, the nonpartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission administrator. 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