The Wisconsin state Senate adjourned for the year on Tuesday and left on its floor an Assembly-passed bill to unfuck the “Red Mirage” by allowing county clerks to start processing mail-in ballots a day prior to Election Day rather than the current morning of, thereby leaving in place the gap that in 2020 allowed the Orange God Emperor to claim the election was rigged simply because the in-person day-of vote totals showed him in the lead before Biden overtook him when the Dem-heavy mail-in ballots were added to the state’s vote totals, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports.
“There’s been a concerted effort by folks in the Assembly and senators to try to get this calendar to the Senate, so we can put to rest complaints from conspiracy theorists,” Dem Mark Spreitzer, told reporters on Tuesday. “But just like in Washington, DC, former President Donald Trump has told Republicans not to fix anything so he can continue to spread his lies and complain when he loses.”
It’s not clear if Spreitzer was talking about actual conversations between Trump and state Senate Republicans or if it was more of an implied thing, as in they know the fat fuck doesn’t want it so they didn’t do it. Complete twat State Senate President Chris Kapenga, whose past prostrations before Trump managed to stick out even in a party of total worms said “It makes sense to sort absentee ballots and verify envelope data on Monday before Election Day, but there aren’t enough controls in place to protect the privacy of votes if opened early. As the rest of the world has figured out, the best way to eliminate irregularities and potential fraud is to just vote and count on the same day.”
Processing ballots means simply taking them out of the mailing envelope and arranging them for tabulators, so Kapenga is – surprise! – full of shit. He also knows what he’s doing with giving Trump space to claim fraud just as Republicans in Michigan and Pennsylvania did in 2020. As for those other two states, Michigan in 2022 killed the Red Mirage and a bill to do the same awaits the Republican-majority Pennsylvania state Senate, its prospects unclear at best.