Wisconsin

No doubt it will go the WI s. court. maybe higher???



Wisconsin Senate votes to remove state’s top elections official, setting off legal dispute


https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/14/politics/wisconsin-elections-dispute-meagan-wolfe/?dicbo=v2-uRjndBz&iid=ob_lockedrail_topeditorial


By Whitney Wild and Eric Bradner, CNN
Updated 5:31 PM EDT, Thu September 14, 2023



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Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe is seen in November 2021.
Mark Hoffman/Milwaukee Journal-Sentine/USA Today Network
CNN —

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Thursday to fire the state’s top elections administrator, Meagan Wolfe – a move that immediately triggered a legal battle over who will oversee voting in one of the nation’s most important presidential swing states as the 2024 election approaches.

The 22-11 vote to remove Wolfe follows years of criticism by supporters of Donald Trump, who have blamed Wisconsin’s voting policies during the coronavirus pandemic for the former president’s 21,000-vote loss in 2020.

Wolfe is likely to stay on as the administrator of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission despite Thursday’s vote, after Wolfe and many Democrats, including Attorney General Josh Kaul, said the actions of the Senate – where an April special election victory gave Republicans a supermajority – were not legitimate.

Wolfe told reporters after the vote that she will remain on the job and will not “bend to political pressure.”

“The Senate’s vote today to remove me is not a referendum on the job I do, but rather a reaction to not achieving the political outcome they desire,” she said.

But state Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu said the commission must appoint an interim administrator. .......................