>> YOU'RE WELCOME.
THANK YOU, FREDERICA.
>> IN THE INVESTIGATION INTO THE
2020 ELECTION IN WISCONSIN,
FORMER SUPREME COURT JUSTICE
MICHAEL GABLEMAN ISSUED A FLURRY
OF SUBPOENAS SEEKING DOCUMENTS
AND TESTIMONY.
THE ORDERS WENT OUT TO MAYORS,
ELECTION OFFICIALS, THE EVERS
ADMINISTRATION AND AN IMMIGRANT
RIGHTS GROUP.
THAT GROUP, VOCES DE LA
FRONTERA, IS NOW SUING OVER THE
SUBPOENA.
VOCES JOINED ATTORNEY GENERAL
JOSH KAUL LAWSUIT ON BEHALF OF
THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE
WISCONSIN ELECTIONS COMMISSION.
HOW DID THE IMMIGRANTS RIGHT
GROUP GET SWEPT UP IN ALL THIS?
WE ASKED CHRISTINE
NEUMANN-ORTIZ, EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR OF VOCES DE LA FRONTERA
ACTION.
CHRISTINE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH
FOR BEING HERE.
>> THANK YOU, IT'S MY PLEASURE.
>> HOW SURPRISED WERE YOU THAT
YOUR ORGANIZATION WAS SERVED
WITH THIS SUBPOENA?
>> IN A CERTAIN WAY, IT'S
FLATTERING.
FLATTERING IN THAT THERE'S A
RECOGNITION THAT VOCES DE LA
FRONTERA ACTION, WHICH IS THE
ARM OF VOCES DE LA FRONTERA THAT
THEY WERE SEEKING TO ALL OF OUR
DOCUMENTS, ANY EMAILS RELATED TO
2020 ELECTIONS AND FUTURE
ELECTIONS AS WELL FROM A
NON-GOVERNMENTAL BODY, WHICH IS
COMPLETELY OUTSIDE OF EVEN WHAT
THE REALM OF THIS SHAM REVIEW IS
SUPPOSED TO PURSUE, TO ME IT'S A
TESTAMENT THAT OUR HARD WORK HAS
REALLY PAID OFF.
VOCES DE LA FRONTERA ACTION HAS
BEEN ORGANIZING THE LATINX VOTE
SINCE 2004, HAD A HUGE IMPACT,
ESPECIALLY THROUGH A PROGRAM --
RELATIONAL VOTING PROGRAM WHERE
IT'S BASICALLY FRIENDS AND
FAMILY YOU KNOW THAT WE BUILT UP
IN A SIGNIFICANT WAY IN 2018 AND
2020, AND IT'S A RECOGNITION
THAT LATINOS HERE IN WISCONSIN
AND MULTI-RACIAL YOUTH AS WELL,
THAT WE'VE HAD AN IMPACT IN
ELECTIONS, BECAUSE THIS WHOLE
SHAM REVIEW IS REALLY A
CONTINUATION FROM JANUARY 6,
THIS BASELESS ALLEGATION THAT'S
INTENDED TO UNDERMINE THE WILL
OF THE PEOPLE TO REALLY DISTRACT
FROM THEIR OWN RECORD, WHICH HAS
BEEN TO BLOCK PAID SICK DAYS
THAT WE NEED DURING A PANDEMIC,
BLOCK IMMIGRATION REFORM, BLOCK
DRIVER'S LICENSES, ALL OF THIS
STUFF.
SO IT REALLY IS A RECOGNITION OF
THE GOOD WORK THAT WE'RE DOING.
WE DECIDED TO SUE, THOUGH,
BECAUSE WE THINK THAT WE
SHOULDN'T TAKE THIS STUFF
LIGHTLY, AND THAT THEY'RE GOING
TO START WITH US, THEY'RE GOING
TO GO WITH OTHERS, AND SO THIS
SHAM REVIEW IS LIKE THIS LITTLE
MCCARTHYITE POLITICAL THEATER,
BUT IT'S DANGEROUS TO OUR
DEMOCRACY, AND WE WANT TO MAKE
SURE WE STAND UP FOR IT.
>> SO YOU DESCRIBED IT OUT OF
THE CHUTES AS FLATTERING,
BECAUSE IT RECOGNIZES YOUR WORK,
BUT IS IT BURDENSOME?
>> NOT -- NO, I MEAN, I THINK
IT'S BASELESS, S DEFINITELY, AND
IT'S PART OF THIS TOTAL, YOU
KNOW, POLITICAL THEATER AND SHAM
REVIEW WHERE THEY'RE TRYING TO
FRAME A MESSAGE TO CONTINUE TO
ASSERT THAT FALSE NARRATIVE, TO
REALLY DENY THE FACT THAT'S BEEN
PROVEN OVER AN OVER AND OVER
AGAIN THAT, YOU KNOW, BIDEN WON
WISCONSIN, HE WON IT FAIRLY AND
SQUARELY, BUT, YOU KNOW,
SIMULTANEOUS TO THIS FRAME THAT
THEY'RE DOING, THERE'S ALSO ALL
THESE ATTACKS GOING ON ON
PEOPLE'S ABLE TO VOTE.
>> SPECIFIC TO THE SUBPOENA THAT
WAS ISSUED TO VOCES DE LA
FRONTERA, I MEAN, DID YOU BEND
OR BREAK ELECTION LAWS AS YOU
WORKED TO TURN OUT VOTERS IN THE
2020 LUCKTIO
2020 ELECTION?
>> ABSOLUTELY NOT.
WE HAVE DEFINITELY NOT DONE SO
SINCE WE STARTED DOING ELECTIONS
IN 2004, WE HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED
IN THE PAST BY FAR RIGHT GROUPS,
FOR EXAMPLE, A GROUP THAT'S --
IT'S A WHITE SUPREMACIST
ORGANIZATION DEFINED BY SOUTHERN
POVERTY LAW CENTER, YOU KNOW,
WHO HAVE TRIED TO -- OR HAVE
SOME RADIO DJs MAKE RACIST
ALLEGATIONS ABOUT LATINX VOTERS.
PEOPLE KNOW WHO CAN VOTE AND WHO
CAN'T VOTE.
WE ARE ABOUT PROTECTING PEOPLE.
SO WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT
PEOPLE WHO CAN'T VOTE TO -- WE
DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE --
AND THEY KNOW, BUT THE MAIN
THING IS, IS MAKING SURE THAT
PEOPLE WHO ARE U.S. CITIZENS,
THEY'RE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, THEY
HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THEY
NEED AND TO MAKE SURE THEY CAST
THEIR BALLOT.
SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT --
WE'VE NEVER HAD ISSUES.
WE HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED IN THE
PAST, AND TO ME, THIS IS JUST --
YOU KNOW, IT'S A STATEMENT THAT
LATINOS ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE
IN WISCONSIN.
>> CHRISTINE NEUMANN-ORTIZ,
THANKS VERY MUCH, THANKS FOR