Ron Johnson calls for having Republican lawmakers take over federal elections in Wisconsin

[Nevilledog]

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MADISON – U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson is calling on Wisconsin lawmakers to take over elections and tell local officials to ignore the work of the bipartisan Elections Commission they set up six years ago.

The Oshkosh Republican on Wednesday met privately for an hour with GOP legislative leaders in the state Capitol, less than two weeks after telling the Journal Sentinel in an interview that lawmakers should set aside the commission's work. He repeatedly declined to say afterward whether he'd discussed his views on taking over elections, saying only that he had talked about many issues.

In the earlier interview, Johnson accused the state commission of "systematically" violating the law with the advice it gave to municipal clerks during the coronavirus pandemic last year.
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He contended Republicans who control the Legislature could unilaterally take over federal elections and said Democratic Gov Tony Evers couldn't stop them.

"There's no mention of the governor in the Constitution" when it comes to running elections, Johnson said. "It says state legislatures, and so if I were running the joint —and I’m not — I would come out and I would just say, 'We're reclaiming our authority. Don't listen to WEC anymore. Their guidances are null and void.'"

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[milestogo]

1. STFU you ridiculous clown

[Thomas Hurt]

2. one party totalitarianism is just what the fascist ordered.

[maxsolomon]

3. Max Solomon calls for Wisconsin voters to WTFU and dump this embarrassment

I'm not convinced they will, however.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Traitor.

Did they tell you to say that when you went to Moscow for Fourth of July?

[Sneederbunk]

5. Sounds like he's running again. Good

[Me.]

6. As If

[Ziggysmom]

7. Johnson is a gold digging pissant!

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Because it's not enough to be called a Nazi...

…Ron Johnson has to behave like a Nazi.

[LastDemocratInSC]

9. Who would have thought

that Josef Stalin would be reincarnated as a Cheesehead?

[Septua]

10. Someone explain how that would work???

Maybe I don't understand the Constitutional language on election laws but in order for a state legislature to pick and choose a Presidential winner, they'd have to keep the vote count secret so no one would know who got the most votes and just declare their guy won. But since Texas has single handedly overturned Roe, I suppose anything is possible.

Still, I'm hard pressed to accept all the mild mannered Democrats in the country would simply acquiesce...

https://campaignlegal.org/update/can-state-legislature-overturn-presidential-election-results

[bluestarone]

11. Go ahead fucker!

Maybe the Democratic states need to start looking at doing the SAME thing?

[Septua]

12. Maybe they do...

..but the Republican controlled states outnumber the Dems...