Subpoenas to Wisconsin election leaders submitted by former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman are being allowed stand.
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul tried to block the subpoenas, but Dane County Circuit Judge Rhonda Lanford ruled in favor of Gableman this morning. Gableman is leading an investigation into the 2020 election. He will now have the opportunity to interview election leaders in-person.
So, now the forward momentum continues.
Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol are taking the first step toward killing Wisconsin’s new rules for ballot drop boxes and correcting ballots. The legislature’s rules committee yesterday voted to require the Wisconsin Elections Commission to publish rules for both. WEC issued informal guidance about drop boxes in 2020, and sent guidance about what’s called ‘curing’ ballots back in 2016.
Yesterday’s vote requires the Elections Commission to make both of those formal by early next month so that lawmakers can then vote them down. Republicans at the Capitol say both ballot dropboxes and the current ‘curing’ standards are not in-line with state election law.
