GOP seeking power over elections in Wisconsin, Minnesota

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Wisconsin’s secretary of state has no role in elections, but that could change if Republicans are able to flip the seat this year and pass a law that would empower the office with far more responsibilities.

All three GOP candidates competing for the nomination in Tuesday’s primary support the shift and echo former President Trump’s false claims that fraud cost him the 2020 election.

If successful, the move would be a bold attempt to shift power to an office Republicans hope to control going into the 2024 presidential election and would represent a reversal from just six years ago when Republicans established the Wisconsin Elections Commission with bipartisan support. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won Wisconsin by about 21,000 votes in the presidential race.

“This is not about policy,” said David Becker, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney who heads the nonpartisan Center for Election Innovation and Research. “It’s about election outcomes and only election outcomes.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-seeking-power-over-elections-in-wisconsin-minnesota/ar-AA10pnXZ

[Sneederbunk]

1. How else is Johnson going to win?

[rlegro]

2. Furthermore, it's a highly hypocritical move by WisGOP

That's because the Republican-controlled legislature stripped the secretary of state's office of most of its duties just before Democratic Governor-Elect Tony Evers could take office and then veto the measure. If in the November election the GOP candidate for secretary of state wins and the GOP succeeds in toppling Evers or through furthering their extreme gerrymander makes their legislative hegemony veto-proof, they'll bestow the secretary of state with even more powers than ever before, all election-related. Gee, anti-democracy never looked so craven or cynical.

[Kaleva]

3. Damn Constitution gives state legislatures the authority to run elections

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Except...

Article I, Section 4
The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators.

Article I, Section 5
Each House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each House may provide.

Each House may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and, with the concurrence of two thirds, expel a member.

[Kaleva]

5. Unless Congress passes a law, the power to control elections resides with the state legislatures.