State Elections Commission, Again, Dismisses Complaint Filed Against Republicans Who Posed as False Electors

Friday, December 22nd, 2023 -- 12:00 PM

(Molly Beck, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission this week dismissed a complaint filed against a group of Republicans who posed as electors for Donald Trump in 2020 despite Joe Biden's presidential victory in Wisconsin.

According to Molly Beck with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the commission had been ordered by a Dane County judge earlier this year to review the complaint for a second time but without the participation of one of its members, who had signed the paperwork himself.

The order was part of a civil lawsuit filed against the group of Republicans by Biden electors. On Tuesday, the commission voted 5-0 to accept an agreement that settled the lawsuit and to dismiss the complaint before the commission. Commissioner Bob Spindell, a Republican, did not participate as ordered by Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington in May.

Included in the commission's action was accepting the public statement made by the group of Republicans acknowledging Biden won the 2020 election and that they were not duly elected presidential electors. The order from Remington vacated the commission's March 2022 decision not to sanction the group of Republicans.

Spindell, a Republican commissioner on the state's top election oversight board, was sued in April and May 2022 in separate lawsuits over his role in the scheme that included similar efforts by Republicans in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Nevada.

Spindell and other false electors have defended their actions, calling it a legal strategy in the event the election results were overturned by a lawsuit.

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