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Sam Levine in New York

Widely criticized Wisconsin report repeats falsehoods in argument to ‘decertify’ 2020 election

Unused privacy booths are seen at a voting site in Madison, Wisconsin on 3 November 2020.
Unused privacy booths are seen at a voting site in Madison, Wisconsin, on 3 November 2020. Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters

A long anticipated and widely criticized review of Wisconsin’s 2020 election has embraced fringe conspiracy theories and argued there were grounds for the legislature to “decertify” the results of the 2020 election, something legal experts have said is impossible.

A report released on Tuesday was the result of months of work by Michael Gableman, a former state supreme court justice hired by the state assembly to review the election. Gableman’s efforts, backed by $676,000 in public funds, have been widely criticized as partisan, sloppy and unnecessary.

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