A Marinette County man’s prosecutors are then asking the judge to rescind a restraining order against the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which is being sued by the man in a situation involving election fraud.  ,
Kevin Scott, counsel for Thomas Oldenburg, tells The Federalist that a reading on the demand for “remedial restrictions” may be held as soon as July 10. In addition, Scott claims that WEC is “parsimoniously” interpreting the temporary order and effectively working out a plan to get around it by “parsimoniously” interpreting the momentary injunction.
A scoundrel state elections commission, led by a questionable executive who refuses to step down after being essentially fired by the state Senate, is at the center of this allegation. Additionally, the organization has repeatedly broken condition laws.
According to Scott,” We are now having WEC obstructing an get.” ” The fact that voters and clerks are in this situation right now is due to WEC’s malfeasance” . ,
Induced to undertake voting scam
The temporary restraining order, which was issued by Judge Morrison last month, forbids Wisconsin’s roughly 1,900 local election clerks from using think absentee ballot envelopes while the jury deliberates on the qualities of the petition against them.  ,
The complaint claims that the committee broke Wisconsin election law by approving fresh ballot envelopes recommended by WEC personnel. If used, the letters “would make citizens erroneously certify that the ballot box itself is an original or a version of the vote ask generated through MyVote when it is not in any way.” Citizens can request absentee ballots through MyVote, an online website for voter registration.
By making people erroneously certify that the transfer box itself is a version of a totally unique document, WEC created a situation whereby people who requested absentee ballots through MyVote were both committing election fraud by making a false statement while casting a ballot, or were forced to no vote absentee, as Hobson’s choice, Scott said in May.  ,
As the problem says:
WEC has approved the use of fresh absentee ballot gain envelopes that make up false attestation that the box itself is a” copy” of the absentee ballot request by coercing a vote to return an absentee ballot requested through MyVote. These letters make up the definition of “election scam” as defined by Wisconsin Statutes. A signed copy of the ballot request must be included “in the envelope” where the ballot is returned, as required by section 6.87( 4 ). The new envelope serves as a motivation to vote fraud.
The six utterly pointless commissioners, three Democrats and three Republicans, appear to have once more sought dubious counsel from the agency attorneys.  ,
A Snag
The judge said the plaintiff was likely to win his lawsuit when he issued the temporary restraining order.  ,
Earlier this year, a different voter challenged the commission’s legal authority to operate MyVote. WEC argued that any requests made through the website are “email” requests, making them permissible.
But that created a snag: If an applicant requests an absentee ballot by email, Wisconsin statutes require the elector to include “in the envelope” a copy of the “request” for the ballot “bearing an original signature”. But WEC did n’t indicate that to voters, the lawsuit alleges.
In the meantime, WEC created new, color- coded absentee ballot return envelopes designated as” Forms EL- 122″. Applications were required to formally state that they had requested the ballot and that the request was” an original or a copy of.” According to the lawsuit, doing so poses a legal risk for hundreds of thousands of electors who favor absentee ballot voting.  ,
‘ Doubled Down ‘
Oldenburg’s motion for remedial sanctions alleges the commission engaged in a “multi- prong attack on this Court’s authority, and in the process has created the exact situation the Plaintiff, and the Court, sought to avoid”.
The judge had scheduled a hearing for June 5 on the lawsuit’s merits. However, the leftist intervenors in the case, the League of Women Voters and Disability Rights Wisconsin, requested that Morrison be replaced with a potentially friendlier judge in Dane County Circuit Court, according to Scott.  ,
Scott told The Federalist that the move, which bumped the June 5 hearing from the calendar, provided WEC with “fortuitous timing”. At its June 10 meeting, the commission took a number of actions that Scott describes as” contest of court.” According to the court filing, the commission “parsimoniously interpreted the Order in the narrowest possible context.” WEC adhered to its terms, according to commissioners, as long as it did n’t explicitly state to any clerk ( or voter ) that they were required to use the EL-122.
” However, a litigant is not afforded the opportunity to ‘ reinterpret’ a court order to suit its needs and simply go forward with its original planned course of action, as WEC decided to do”, Oldenburg’s court filing asserts.  ,
Despite its issues, records also reveal that the commission on the same day passed” Emergency Rule EL 6.05″, which required election administrations to send absentee voters instructions directing them to sign the” Certification of Voter section” in spite of its shortcomings. The rule was originally drafted last September, with far- left Gov. In April, Tony Evers approves of the language.  ,
” The’ emergency rule’ was not presented — as required by statute — to the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Rules Regulations until after the June 10, 2024 public meeting. The’ emergency rule’ was not noticed for discussion at the June 10, 2024 meeting”, the sanction motion states.  ,
WEC, the document charges, “has taken no steps whatsoever to give clerks an alternative to using the EL- 122 in any upcoming election”. Instead, the commission is “emphatically telling clerks that using the document is not in the interest.”
” In other words, WEC has created a situation where clerks are required to use the EL- 122, in direct violation of the Order’s prohibition, because WEC has both failed to provide another option, and, as an agency delegated enforcement power over violations of election law, has basically said to clerks ‘ we have your back,'” the motion asserts. However, that does nothing to a voter or clerk who feels uncomfortable making a false statement in order to cast a ballot or encouraging other people to do so. The state’s district attorneys, who are deserving of no regard for WEC, are also left out.
A spokesman for the Wisconsin Elections Commission stated that the organization has no comment at this time.  ,
‘ Completely Partisan Manner ‘ ,
The commission’s attorneys are pressing the court to “immediately convene a meeting,” order the commission to “explicitly overturn its previously- adopted requirement that the state’s clerks use the EL-122 in its current form, and issue a new emergency rule to address the alleged violations of law. Additionally, the motion requests a fine of up to$ 2,000 for each day WEC is acquitted of contempt of court. And two days after Election Day, the plaintiff wants the court to “appoint a special master to oversee all of WEC’s actions relating to its administration of elections in this state through November 7, 2024.”  ,
Scott said he was surprised that a three-person election law advisory board and expert witnesses who advised it did n’t raise a single issue about whether WEC should follow the instructions and essence of the order.  ,
” They seemed to be acting in a completely partisan manner”, the attorney said.  ,
The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award- winning investigative reporter and 30- year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
