WISCONSIN ELECTION COMMISSION IS
EXPECTED TO TESTIFY NEXT WEEK.
THIS WEEK, MEAGAN WOLFE HAS BEEN
PUBLICLY COUNTERING
MISINFORMATION BORNE FROM SOCIAL
MEDIA AND POLITICAL WEBSITES
THAT ALLEGE ALL KINDS OF VAST
ELECTION INTERFERENCE OR FRAUD.
AND BY WEEK'S END A LAWSUIT HAD
BEEN FILED SIMILAR TO ONES IN
MICHIGAN, PENNSYLVANIA AND JORNL
GEORGIA TO THROW OUT RESULTS
FROM MENOMINEE, DANE AND
MILWAUKEE COUNTIES.
WE TURN TO MEAGAN WOLFE FOR
RESPONSE.
THANKS VERY MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
>> WELL, GOOD MORNING.
THANKS FOR HAVING ME.
>> SO THE LAWSUIT BROUGHT BY
REPUBLICAN ATTORNEYS WANTS TO
THROW OUT ALL THOSE RESULTS FROM
THOSE THREE COUNTIES BASED ON
SUNDRY ALLEGATIONS OF FRAUD.
BY MY COUNT THAT'S NEARLY 8 # ON
# --
800,000 VOTES.
WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THIS
LAWSUIT?
>> WELL, WE'LL OF COURSE WORK
WITH OUR LEGAL COUNSEL AND THE
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE THROUGH
THE LITIGATION PROCESS AND
PROCEED ANY DATA THAT IS
PRESENTED AS PART OF IT.
BUT AT THIS TIME, AGAIN, EVEN AS
PART OF THIS FILING, WE'RE NOT
AWARE OF THERE BEING ANY ACTUAL
EVIDENCE PRODUCED TO SHOW THAT
THERE WAS ANY LARGE SCALE FRAUD
OR ANYTHING THAT, YOU KNOW,
AMOUNTS TO MAJOR ISSUES IN
COUNTING OR OTHER JURISDICTIONS
IN COUNTING THEIR BALLOTS OR IN
ENSURING THAT ONLY ELIGIBLE
VOTERS WERE ABLE TO CAST THEIR
BALLOT.
>> NOW, THE LAWSUIT TARGETS,
AMONG OTHER THINGS, 200,000 PLUS
INDEFINITELY CONFINED VOTERS WHO
DON'T HAVE TO INCLUDE VOTER ON
ABSENTEE BALLOTS.
THE COMMITTEE IS ALSO
QUESTIONING THOSE VOTES.
WHY DO THOSE VOTES COUNT?
>> INDEFINITELY CONFINED IS
ACTUALLY A PROVISION OF THE
PHOTO I.D. LAW IN THE WISCONSIN
STATE STATUTES.
AND THE WISCONSIN STATE STATUTES
SAY THAT IF A VOTER CERTIFIES
THAT THEY ARE INDEFINITELY
CONFINED, AND THIS IS A
SELF-CERTIFICATION OF THE VOTER,
THAT THEY CAN APPLY INDEFINITELY
CONFINED FOR REASON OF AGE,
ILLNESS, INFIRMITY OR
DISABILITY.
AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THEY
HAVE TO CERTIFY TO.
AND IF THEY DO, THEY'RE EXEMPT
FROM THE PHOTO I.D. REQUIREMENT.
FOR OTHER VOTERS, THE FIRST TIME
THEY REQUEST AN ABSENTEE BALLOT
THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE A VOTER
I.D.
NO MATTER IF YOU'RE INDEFINITELY
CONFINED OR A REGULAR VOTER
CASTING AN ABSENTEE BALLOT, YOU
STILL MUST BE REGISTERED TO
VOTE, AT WHICH POINT YOU HAVE TO
PROVIDE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE
INFORMATION LIKE A SOCIAL
SECURITY NUMBER OR DRIVER'S
LICENSE NUMBER.
ALL ABSENTEE VOTERS ARE ALL
REQUIRED TO SIGN THE
CERTIFICATION ON THEIR ABSENTEE
BALLOT CERTIFICATE ENVELOPE.
AND THEY'RE ALSO ALL REQUIRED TO
HAVE A WITNESS AS WELL.
AND SO THERE ARE VOTERS
HISTORICALLY THAT UTILIZE THAT
PROVISION AND WE'RE SEEING
CERTAINLY THERE'S A LARGER
NUMBER OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS IN
OUR STATE THIS YEAR.
BUT THE PERCENTAGE OF PEOPLE
THAT CERTIFY THEY'RE
INDEFINITELY CONFINED REMAINS
RELATIVELY THE SAME.
>> WHAT IS YOUR REACTION TO THE
LEGISLATIVE INVESTIGATION INTO
THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE
WISCONSIN ELECTION?
>> I AM ALWAYS GLAD TO COOPERATE
WITH PROVIDING ANY INFORMATION
THAT I CAN ABOUT THE ELECTIONS
PROCESS.
TALKING ABOUT ELECTIONS, ABOUT
THE MECHANICS, ABOUT HOW
ELECTIONS WORK, PRESENTING
ELECTION FACTS IS ONE OF THE
CORE MISSIONS OF AN AGENCY LIKE
OURS AND CERTAINLY MY POSITION.
I'M GLAD TO PRESENT ANY
INFORMATION I CAN TO THE
LEGISLATIVE BODY, TO THE
LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE IN MAKING
SURE THAT THEY HAVE THE
INFORMATION THAT THEY NEED SO
THAT VOTERS CAN HAVE EVEN MORE
FACTS ABOUT THE PROCESS AND HOW
THEY WORK AND CAN FEEL CONFIDENT
IN HOW OUR ELECTION WAS
CONDUCTED.
>> BECAUSE YOU HAVE PUBLICLY
COUNTERED THIS WEEK EIGHT TOP
RUMORS BEING DISSEMINATED ABOUT
THE ELECTION, INCLUDING THINGS
ABOUT WHETHER THE USE OF
SHARPIES ON BALLOTS RENDERED
THEM INVALID.
DOES THIS NEW LAWSUIT GIVE ANY
MORE TEETH TO THOSE KINDS OF
ALLEGATIONS OR RUMORS?
>> WE HAVE NOT BEEN PROVIDED
WITH ANY ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE OF
ANY TYPES OF ISSUES WITH OUR
ELECTIONS AND THIS SUIT DOES NOT
DO THAT EITHER.
SO, NO, I DO NOT THINK THAT THIS
CHANGES EVERYTHING AND I STILL
THINK THAT EVERYTHING WE'VE
PRESENTED TO ON COUNTER THE
RUMORS AND THE MISINFORMATION
THAT ARE PREVALENT ABOUT OUR
ELECTION STILL STAND.
>> IN THE 11 DAYS SINCE THE
ELECTION AND THROUGH THE
CANVASS, ARE ELECTION OFFICIALS
FINDING ANY MAJOR SWINGS?
>> THERE HAVE NOT BEEN ANY MAJOR
ISSUES OR SWINGS REPORTED TO OUR
OFFICE.
I SHOULD ALSO NOTE THAT THE
UNOFFICIAL ELECTION RESULTS ARE
POSTED BY REPORTING UNIT ON THE
COUNTY WEBSITES.
THEY WILL REMAIN THERE.
AS ARE THE COUNTY CERTIFIED
CANVASS RESULTS.
SO ANYBODY IS ABLE TO SEE ANY
CHANGES THAT HAPPENED BETWEEN
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS AND CERTIFIED
CANVASS RESULTS.
THOSE ARE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE.
YOU'LL SEE THAT THE COUNTIES
THAT HAVE REPORTED AND WERE
CLOSE TO 60 COUNTIES OUT OF THE
72 THAT HAVE NOW SUBMITTED THEIR
CERTIFIED CANVASS, THAT WE ARE
NOT SEEING ANY MAJOR CHANGES IN
ANY OF THOSE NUMBERS.
>> ALL RIGHT.
WE NEED TO LEAVE IT THERE.
MEAGAN