https://www.forbes.com/sites/alison...sparks-new-probes-nationwide/?sh=5810abc9783e
Wisconsin Republican Robin Vos, the state legislature’s Assembly Speaker, told the
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Wednesday he has hired three retired police officers as government contractors for a taxpayer-funded investigation that will broadly look into the election, including allegations of “double voting,” how absentee ballots were verified and how cities used private grants to fund their elections.
The three-month investigation will not change the election results, but the officers will produce a report by the fall that lawmakers could use as the basis for new election laws, and they can subpoena people and refer potential issues to prosecutors if necessary.
Fulton County, Georgia, is gearing up for an audit of more than 145,000 of their ballots that’s being pushed by Republicans alleging election fraud, which a judge allowed to move forward last week.
Officials in
Cheboygan County and
Antrim County, Michigan, are weighing whether to hire an outside firm to audit their election results as Arizona has, even after a lawsuit concerning initial errors with Antrim County’s vote count—which were not due to voter fraud, as some have alleged—was recently
dismissed.
The
Washington Post reports that voters in other spots around the country have been pressuring their local officials to open similar investigations—particularly looking at voting machines that are linked to a far-right conspiracy theory—in response to prominent Republicans like former President Donald Trump who have continued to push unfounded allegations of voter fraud and praise the Arizona recount.
