Calls To Audit Wisconsin Vote Grow Louder After New Reveal

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 26 June 2021 07:30 PM
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Calls To Audit Wisconsin Vote Grow Louder After New Reveal

Retired police officers hired by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos are being given $3,200 a month to examine “potential irregularities and/or illegalities" in the 2020 presidential election, contracts obtained by The Associated Press reveal.

The investigators will be given $9,600 each over three months to carry the probe, according to the documents presented Thursday to the AP by the Assembly chief clerk's office under the open records law. Vos signed two contracts in recent days and has explained he plans to hire a third investigator and an attorney to manage the investigation.

Vos last month announced intentions to have officers examine the election results as part of the Republican response to former President Donald Trump's close loss in Wisconsin. Republicans have further ordered a review by the nonpartisan Legislative Audit Bureau and they have passed many bills tightening rules for absentee voting, measures Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is all but certain to veto.

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In Wisconsin, local election officials identified only 27 cases of possible voter fraud out of approximately 3.3 million votes cast in the November election that they forwarded to prosecutors. No charges have been brought in any of the cases.

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Republicans in other states are further conducting inspections and reviews after Trump made unproven and discredited accusations of widespread voter fraud and abuse. Many Wisconsin Republican lawmakers recently traveled to Arizona to observe an audit being carried there. Vos has explained he does not expect a similar review in Wisconsin, rather citing his hiring of the retired investigators.

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The investigators hired to date are Mike Sandvick, a retired Milwaukee police detective with ties to the GOP, and Steve Page, who Vos has said previously worked for the city of Eau Claire. Page's name had not been made public before the AP obtained the contract.

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Vos has not named the other two people he plans to hire, though has said the other retired officer used to work for the Brown County Sheriff’s Department and investigated former Green Bay Mayor Jim Schmitt over election law violations.

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Vos spokeswoman Angela Joyce did not immediately return a message asking for comment on the contracts signed or the status of the other agreements. Vos signed the contract with Sandvick on June 16 and the one with Page on Wednesday.

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The terms of the contracts are identical. Sandvick and Page have been hired for June, July and August and are to be given $3,200 a month by taxpayers.

They are tasked with following leads and accusations submitted to the Assembly elections committee, raised in the media, provided to members of the Legislature, or generated throughout the course of the probe.

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