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Investigator in Republicans' Wisconsin 2020 election review sought to overturn Biden's victory - CBS News

Investigator in Republicans' Wisconsin 2020 election review sought to overturn Biden's victory - CBS News

Investigator in Republicans' Wisconsin 2020 election review sought to overturn Biden's victory - CBS News
Dec 02, 2021 2 mins, 0 secs

The man leading a review of the 2020 election on behalf of Wisconsin Assembly Republicans, Michael Gableman, says he's not trying to overturn the election results, but he revealed Wednesday that one of the investigators he has hired did, in fact, file a lawsuit that sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.

The investigator, Ron Heuer, is the president of the Wisconsin Voters Alliance, which failed in its bid to convince the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn the 2020 election results late last year.

A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, Gableman was hired over the summer by Wisconsin Assembly Republicans and was given a budget of $676,000 to scrutinize the 2020 election.

Gableman has traveled to see how other efforts to review the election have been undertaken, visiting Arizona to take a look at the Maricopa County review of its election results and equipment and attending a symposium in South Dakota run by My Pillow CEO and Trump ally Mike Lindell, who claimed he'd unveil proof at the event that the Chinese stole the election and gave it to Joe Biden, but that never materialized.

Heuer said he doesn't regret the lawsuits filed last year seeking to block certification of the election results.

Wisconsin's results were certified and multiple courts rejected challenges to the election results.

He said Wednesday that his staff includes several former Milwaukee police detectives and former private investigator Gary Wait, who was part of a small group of volunteers who tried to review ballots from the 2020 election, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

His review is continuing as Wisconsin Republicans keep up their attacks on the bipartisan state agency that oversees elections. 

Senator Ron Johnson has said he'd like to see the Wisconsin Legislature to take control of election administration

"I think the state Legislature needs to reassert its authority (and) make sure that, in the federal elections, our election clerks follow state law, not guidances that are contrary to state law," Johnson told Wisconsin Public Radio last month

Criticism by Johnson and other Wisconsin Republicans came after the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau found there was no widespread fraud in Wisconsin's 2020 election; however, the agency did make 30 recommendations to the Wisconsin Elections Commisison's staff and 18 issues for state lawmakers to consider. 

A bipartisan group of more than 50 election officials wrote a letter to Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos to show their support for Wolfe, who says she's not planning to step down

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