Headline: Wisconsin Examiner, 10/6/2022
The question before them: how to deal with absentee ballot envelopes that arrive with only partial addresses of witnesses?
Until then, municipal clerks had been able to simply fill in the information. Now, the Republican Party of Waukesha County argued that was unlawful and wanted to prohibit clerks from doing so. For some voters, that could mean having their ballots returned and figuring out how to fix them in time to have their vote counted.
A lawyer for the GOP-controlled Legislature favored a prohibition. Lawyers for government regulators, Democrats and the League of Women Voters argued against it. Ultimately, the GOP side prevailed.
In his ruling, Circuit Judge Michael J. Aprahamian [Scott Walker appointee] added his voice to the doubts about absentee voting in Wisconsin and about the oversight provided by the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission, which has seen its every move scrutinized since Trump and his allies started questioning the 2020 results in Wisconsin.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/26/2022
Headline: WKOW, 10/5/2022
The papers mostly outline bills from outside lawyers Gableman brought in to handle cases ranging from a series of lawsuits over his handling of records, to his ill-fated push to make elections officials answer his questions in private.
Between the August and July billing cycles, five different law firms billed the Assembly for $300,000. Taken with the final months' worth of salary for Gableman and his assistant, along with two Dane County judges' orders for the Assembly to cover the opposing side's attorney fees, Gableman's review has now cost the public more than $1.5 million.
The costs are more than double the amount of Gableman's original budget, which was set at $676,000. [emphasis added]
Talk about inflation!
WMTV, 7/30/2021
Headline: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/4/2022
Among Gableman’s shenanigans over the past year:
- He asked a judge to put the mayors of Madison and Green Bay in jail if they refused to be interviewed.
- In no particular order, he filed lawsuits, got sued, got held in contempt of court, treated a Dane County judge with arrogance and disdain, and took the Fifth.
- He demanded that city clerks produce reams and reams of documents that would have been almost impossible to gather and even more impossible to inspect.
- He subpoenaed the makers of voting machines that (a) held no election data and (b) had been shown repeatedly to be reliable.
- He met with officials conducting an equally pathetic election review in Arizona.
- He attended a conference in South Dakota hosted by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, whose endless conspiracy theories included that China somehow hacked the election. (It didn’t.)
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