The Wisconsin Elections Commission on Thursday for the second time rejected a petition to recall GOP state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos over his refusal to take up “decertifying” the state’s 2020 electoral college votes among other sins against MAGA, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
The whole situation’s a mess because there’s a large, looming unanswered question over whether the state legislative district the far right petitioners had collected the signatures is still valid for the effort following the state Supreme Court’s decision to crush the Republican gerrymandering regime.
If it’s the old district then they got 16 signatures more than the minimum requirement. If it’s the new district – the one in which Vos will have to run for reelection in November – then they fell short by thousands, meaning that if the WEC had greenlit the petition it would’ve taken months to resolve in the courts. It’s not clear why the Mike Lindell-backed effort didn’t try to cover their bases and get enough overlap from both districts. Or not clearer because they failed the first time.