Cop hired to probe Wisconsin election has partisan ties

[Nevilledog]

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Scott Bauer
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A retired cop whose investigation into alleged voter fraud in Milwaukee in 2004 made him popular with conservatives has been hired by @SpeakerVos to look into the 2020 election

Cop hired to probe Wisconsin election has partisan ties
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the retired police officers hired by a top Wisconsin Republican to investigate the presidential election in the battleground state has ties to the GOP and previously led a...
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10:50 AM · May 28, 2021

https://apnews.com/article/wi-state-wire-donald-trump-wisconsin-election-2020-elections-d190be620cbca7d0cdd9af47e405568c

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — One of the retired police officers hired by a top Wisconsin Republican to investigate the presidential election in the battleground state has ties to the GOP and previously led a probe into voter fraud in Milwaukee, work that prosecutors disavowed and that a federal judge said was not trustworthy.

Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos this week said he was hiring three retired police investigators to look into the election results. On Thursday, during an interview with conservative talk radio host Dan O’Donnell, Vos confirmed that one of those he hired is Mike Sandvick, a retired Milwaukee police detective .

“In all honesty, he has Republican leanings,” Vos told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday, without naming Sandvick. “He’s been active in the Republican Party.”

A 2008 report Sandvick wrote about the 2004 presidential election recommended that Wisconsin election laws be changed in light of what he said was voter fraud. That report has been referenced by conservatives since then as evidence there is unchecked fraud in the state. However, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s office and the FBI all disavowed the report.

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[Texaswitchy]

1. No big surprise.

Crooks to the end.

[Mad_Machine76]

2. Well duh

[Ocelot II]

3. Of course he does.

And somewhere in the woods a bear is taking a dump.

[dragonlady]

4. Doing the Republicans a favor on the taxpayers' dime