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      Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe

      Clinging to Trumpian Lies, Wisconsin GOP Tries to 'Illegally Fire' Election Chief

      One expert said Republicans are using "extreme tactics" like the Senate vote and threats of impeaching a state Supreme Court justice "to subvert fair elections and maintain anti-democratic grip on power."

      Jessica Corbett
      Sep 14, 2023

      Democratic Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul on Thursday swiftly filed a lawsuit after Republican senators attempted to oust the state's top election official, Meagan Wolfe, despite arguments that they lacked authority to do so.

      The Wisconsin Senate's 22-11 party-line vote on Wolfe was "a bid to give election deniers and conspiracy theorists more control over how elections are run in the state," explainedMother Jones national voting rights correspondent Ari Berman.

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