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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Scott Bauer

Wisconsin judge revives complaint over 2020 fake electors

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Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission must disregard its earlier ruling unanimously rejecting a complaint against fake presidential electors who attempted to cast the state's ballots for former President Donald Trump when it rehears the case, a judge ruled Tuesday.

A Republican commissioner who considered the original complaint must not take part in the reconsideration because he was one of the 10 fake electors, Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington ruled. That commissioner, Robert Spindell, as well as the state elections commission agreed in court filings before the judge ruled that he should never have participated.

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