Docs From Corruption Investigation Reveal Gov. Walkers Allies Intentionally Made baseless voter fra
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Press Release
September 15, 2016
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Mike Browne, Deputy Director
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Cody Oliphant
Documents From Political Corruption Investigation Reveal Gov. Walkers Allies Intentionally Made Baseless Claims of Voter Fraud to Question Election Results
Actions Show Utter Contempt for Our Democracy
MADISON, Wis. Explosive documents from the 2012 investigation of Gov. Scott Walkers campaign and political corruption in Wisconsin reveal conservatives strategy to make baseless accusations of voting impropriety to question the results of an election they thought they had lost. In an email chain, Republican insiders, concerned that conservative Justice David Prosser had lost his 2011 election bid, hatched a scheme to question the legitimacy of the election by enlisting the support of right wing radio to spread allegations of fraudulent voting.
These documents show exactly how for years Gov. Walker and his fellow Republicans, with the help of the right wing media, intentionally made baseless claims about voting as part of their cynical political strategy, commented One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross. The real fraud in our elections is their shameless attempts to manipulate the rules on voting to give themselves an unfair partisan advantage.
In the email chain it is noted the Campaign has themselves down 323 votes right now
to which Steve Baas, lobbyist for the Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, asks and answers his own question, Do we need to start messaging widespread reports of election fraud so we are positively set up for the recount regardless of the final number? I obviously think we should.
Seconding the call to begin baselessly claiming fraud is disgraced former Assembly Speaker and head of the American Federation for Children Scott Jensen who adds,
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