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The Wisconsin Elections Commission is a bipartisan regulatory agency of the state of Wisconsin established to administer and enforce election laws in the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was established by a 2015 act of the Wisconsin Legislature which also established the Wisconsin Ethics Commission to administer campaign finance, ethics, and lobbying laws.
However, Republicans lost elections for all statewide executive offices, with the exception of John Leiber who was elected State Treasurer by a slim 38,604 votes. Currently the Republican Party of Wisconsin controls one of two U.S. Senate seats and six of eight U.S. House seats, as well as majorities in both houses of the state legislature.
The bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday rejected an effort to force a recall election of the state's top Republican after determining that not enough valid signatures were collected.
MADISON – Republican lawmakers do not have the authority to remove or replace the state's top election official, and the Wisconsin Elections Commission has no duty to do so, a Dane County judge ...
Sen. Howard Marklein, a Republican from Spring Green who has represented the 17th Senate District for nearly 10 years and is co-chair of the powerful joint finance committee, is now living in the ...
Prior to this role, she was the Commission's deputy administrator and IT director. She has been the target of election conspiracies and partisan complaints since the 2020 United States presidential election, and Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature and on the Wisconsin Elections Commission are attempting to remove her from office.
U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson backs the idea of eliminating the Wisconsin Elections Commission, but the leader of the state Senate, Devin LeMahieu, does not.
As requested by the Republican Party of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Supreme Court assumed original jurisdiction over the case Johnson v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, which would update the legislative maps to account for population changes in the 2020 census. In taking the case, the conservative majority on the court also attempted to define a ...