Wisconsin Attorney General Releases Statement on State Election

Tuesday, December 1st, 2020 -- 9:01 AM

(WMTV) -The recently completed presidential recounts in Dane Co. and Milwaukee Co. demonstrated Wisconsin’s general election was conducted “professionally and securely,” state Attorney General Josh Kaul said in a statement Monday morning.

“The truth is that our election system has integrity and that, amid a pandemic, Wisconsin’s hard-working election officials conducted a safe and fair election,” he said.  Kaul went on to allege the campaign for President Donald Trump of knowing before the recount started that the results were not going to change much, unless the president’s supporters could get election rules changed after the fact.  The Democratic attorney general accused Trump’s camp targeted Wisconsin’s two largest counties because the changes the campaign sought would have likely meant thousands of votes in those two counties would be tossed, while counties where recounts didn’t occur would not be affected.

Noting that Dane and Milwaukee counties, both of which went heavily for President-elect Joe Biden, are home to a majority of the state’s Black residents, Kaul described the campaign’s moves a “Jim Crow strategy for mass disenfranchisement.”  “An election isn’t a game of gotcha,” he added.  Calling the foundations for the president’s challenges “baseless attacks,” the attorney general contended the efforts also undermines Americans’ faith in their elected government and allows the election to be used as propaganda by the country’s adversaries.

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