A top Republican lawmaker in Wisconsin announced Wednesday that he is hiring retired police officers and an attorney to investigate the November election, joining GOP leaders in several states who have continued to probe election results months after President Biden took office under the cloud of unfounded claims of voter fraud.
Rep. Robin Vos, Wisconsin’s state assembly speaker, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinelthat the investigators would spend three months probing tips about election problems or voter fraud and pursuing the most credible ones.
“A sizable chunk of people believe the election was illegitimate,” Vos told the Journal Sentinel. “And democracy cannot flourish if both sides don’t believe in the end both sides had a fair shot.” Continue reading.