Wisconsin AG prepared to defend results of election

Wisconsin’s attorney general is defending the 2024 election, weeks before most voters have even cast their ballot.

Attorney General Josh Kaul was on UpFront on Milwaukee TV over the weekend, and he explained he stands firmly behind the state’s Elections Commission, local election managers and electoral process.

“There have been suggestions, again, about the integrity of our elections,” Kaul said. “We need to make clear, and when I say we, I mean bipartisan groups of people, need to make clear that we have safe and secure elections in Wisconsin. They’ve been tested over and over again. We know that the system works. And then secondly, we’re certainly prepared, if we need to, to defend the results of the election.”

There have been questions about Wisconsin’s last presidential election since Election Day 2020.

Wisconsin was one of the states that saw a large investment from the Mark Zuckerberg-backed Center for Tech and Civic Life. There were also questions about the spike in indefinitely confined voters, Madison’s Democracy in the Park mass-absentee voter program, and how some people at nursing homes across the state voted.

Kaul defended the state against some of the questions from the 2020 election.

“Since I’ve taken office as attorney general, we’ve had a lot of challenges to our voting system. There was an effort to remove tens of thousands of voters from the rolls. We defended against that effort, and we won. There were efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Several lawsuits were filed. We won every one of those cases, and the results were upheld,” Kaul said.

President Biden won Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes in 2020.

That vote margin was in question when a slate of alternate Donald Trump electors signed the paperwork to vote for Trump, should the need arrive.

Kaul has charged three people connected to that slate of electors with felony forgery.

He said on UpFront that he is keeping the case open.

“We have a basic principle in our system of justice, which is that we have equal justice under the law. Nobody is above the law, and so we apply the law equally. Now, we’re not going to speculate who may or may not have evidence that’s gathered against them. What I can tell you is that the decisions that we make with respect to our investigation and any charging decisions we’re in a position to make, will be based not on the identity of the individuals involved but on the facts and the law,” Kaul added.

The latest Marquette Law School Poll gives Vice President Kamala Harris a 4-point lead in Wisconsin, but other polls suggest the race is tighter.