New round of election bills gives legislature say over money, naming WEC lawyers

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MADISON (WKOW) -- Another set of Republican bills changing how Wisconsin administers its elections went into circulation Tuesday.

A bill authored by GOP legislative leaders Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester) and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu (R-Oostburg) seeks to give the legislature control of any federal money that would go to the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC.)

It's similar to a bill Republicans proposed last year that would give the budget-writing Joint Committee on Finance oversight of any federal pandemic relief money.

Under the bill, the finance committee would have the power to review and reject any plan Gov. Tony Evers had for giving federal dollars to the elections commission.

"This bill ensures the people of Wisconsin, through their representatives, can review, amend, or block any efforts by the executive branch of the federal government to interfere with Wisconsin election administration," Vos and LeMahieu wrote in a co-sponsorship memo to the rest of the legislature.

https://www.wkow.com/news/new-round-of-election-bills-gives-legislature-say-over-money-naming-wec-lawyers/article_a8c8906a-83c2-11ec-93e6-177442deaa87.html

[PortTack]

1. Watch for legal challenges on this one as well!

Watch this space
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[AllyCat]

2. And of course, they are NOT our representatives because of gerrymandering

They do not represent the majority of the state. More votes for Dem candidates statewide, and yet, they control 2/3 of the Legislature. And they have no trouble taking away that same control from democratically elected school boards...they want to dissolve Milwaukee Public Schools, have put forth a raft of bills that force school boards to adopt the teaching they want us to do, and pull money out of our schools up to and including sitting on a statewide surplus while they give the schools no increase in aid. They want to control everything. If this was not a Dem governor, they would not put forth this bill.