Wisconsin lawmaker sues to prevent counting of military ballots in the state - The Hill

Wisconsin authorities Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R) filed a suit connected Friday to temporarily artifact the counting of subject ballots successful the authorities aft an predetermination authoritative sent her absentee ballots bearing fake names.

“In this case, the impermanent injunction remedy sought is to forestall immoderate subject elector absentee ballots formed by non-qualified persons casting subject elector absentee ballots, if any, from being counted,” read the lawsuit brought by Brandtjen on with 2 different individuals and the Concerned Veterans of Waukesha Country, wherever it was filed.

They added: “The Plaintiffs privation to guarantee that immoderate adjacent predetermination effect is not determined by non-qualified radical voting subject elector absentee ballots.”

Milwaukee’s politician said connected Thursday that Milwaukee Election Commission (MEC) Deputy Director Kimberly Zapata mailed subject ballots she requested for fictitious voters to Brandtjen, who chairs the authorities House’s elections committee.

The volition down the determination is unclear. MEC Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg said she thought Zapata wanted to show the vulnerability of the voting strategy successful Wisconsin.

Brandtjen, who has promoted mendacious claims that the 2020 predetermination was stolen done wide fraud, received the ballots earlier this week. Zapata has since been fired and faces aggregate charges.

The suit uses the incidental to reason that subject ballots successful Wisconsin should beryllium “sequestered” anterior to the predetermination and not counted until their authenticity nether authorities instrumentality is verified.