In Wisconsin, election activist says potential fraud is 'key standard' by which to evaluate election

A litigator and activist spearheading ongoing efforts to investigate reported voter fraud in the 2020 election claimed Friday in Wisconsin that there is significant evidence casting doubt on the integrity of the alleged results of the race this year, and that legislators should view the potential for ample fraud as the standard by which they judge the integrity of the election's outcomes. 

Phill Kline, the director of the Amistad Project at the Thomas More Society, said in an appearance before the Wisconsin legislature that the "primary concern with fair elections" is that "every vote have equal weight," something he argued hadn't occurred in this year's race. 

Kline argued that massive infusions of cash – "over one half of a billion dollars," he said – has "flowed through private organizations" from wealthy donors to fund election-related projects this year.

Those groups "initiated unique contracts with governments to obtain sensitive information of citizens, as well as to dictate how your elections are to be run," he said. 

Kline was referring in part to the undertakings of the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a left-leaning nonprofit group at the center of some controversy over the last several months for its major cash infusions into Wisconsin Democratic strongholds, among other localities, as part of a nominally nonpartisan get-out-the-vote effort. 

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and wife Priscilla Chan donated $350 million to the group prior to the election. 

Kline at the hearing claimed that, in addition to allegedly giving some voters more weight than others, nonprofit interference into state election management is violative of the Constitution. 

"Under the United States Constitution ... and the elections clause, that responsibility rests with you," he told the legislature. "Not cities, not counties ... but with you." 

"Cities that received [Zuckerberg's] funds violated your [election] plan," he continued, claiming that numerous Wisconsin municipal authorities broke election law "willfully and intentionally."

Kline also argued that if such laws are not followed, authorities are "unable to determine if fraud occurred." 

"In other words, the potential for fraud is the key standard you must assess in determining under the Constitution whether to certify the election," he told lawmakers.

Watch the hearing here.