Wisconsin speaker fires 2020 election investigator

FPI / August 16, 2022

The former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who was hired to investigate alleged fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election has been fired by state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.

Michael Gableman, hired as special counsel more than a year ago, said earlier this year that Wisconsin should consider decertifying the 2020 election due to the evidence he has uncovered.

The firing came just days after Vos narrowly survived a primary election challenge from an opponent endorsed by Gableman. Vos won the Republican primary for the State Assembly 63rd District seat by just 260 votes, likely securing his re-election.

The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission against the City Clerk of Racine for its use of mobile sites in the primary which Vos won, The Gateway Pundit reported.

Soon after he won, Vos criticized Gableman, calling him “an embarrassment to the state.”

In a robocall for Vos’s opponent, Adam Steen, a day before the Aug. 9 primary election, Gableman alleged that Vos “never wanted a real investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin.”

“Everything that my office and I have been able to do to expose all the corruption that took place has been in spite of Robin and not because of him,” Gableman said.

Vos's termination of Gableman's position comes as the time, 22 months, states are required to preserve 2020 election results and data is about to expire.

On Sept. 3 and after, states can choose to delete all 2020 election data.

The law states:

Every officer of election shall retain and preserve, for a period of twenty-two months from the date of any general, special, or primary election of which candidates for the office of President, Vice President, presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, or Resident Commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico are voted for, all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any application, registration, payment of poll tax, or other act requisite to voting in such election, except that, when required by law, such records and papers may be delivered to another officer of election and except that, if a State or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico designates a custodian to retain and preserve these records and papers at a specified place, then such records and papers may be deposited with such custodian, and the duty to retain and preserve any record or paper so deposited shall devolve upon such custodian. Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

(Pub. L. 86–449, title III, § 301, May 6, 1960, 74 Stat. 88.)

In March of this year, Gableman reported on how elderly nursing home residents in Wisconsin were taken advantage of and had votes cast in their names despite being incapable of voting.

Gableman told the state assembly that, in Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay counties, all of which lean Democrat and received millions in grants from Mark Zuckerberg, saw their nursing homes record 100 percent voter turnout in the 2020 election.

Gableman also said private grants used to run the election constituted “election bribery” and called on lawmakers to “eliminate and dismantle” the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

In an Aug. 12 statement, Vos said: “After having many members of our caucus reach out to me over the past several days, it is beyond clear to me that we only have one choice in this matter, and that’s to close the Office of Special Counsel. For those like me who remain concerned about ensuring we have election integrity, we have a simple solution; to focus on our efforts to elect a Republican governor in November so we can pass the bills that were vetoed by Governor Evers.”

Vos’s office later released Gableman’s termination letter, in which Gableman was told “not to engage in any further activities with regards to the Office of Special Counsel or as a representative of the Wisconsin State Assembly” and to return “any and all records” to the Wisconsin Assembly Chief Clerk’s Office.

“This ends your employment by and association with the Wisconsin State Assembly,” Vos wrote.

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