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Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan Dismiss Voters in Undemocratic Power Grab

After Democrats won every statewide office on the ballot last month, Republicans in Wisconsin and Michigan are overriding the will of the voters and working to reduce the power of the incoming administrations simply because they aren’t happy with the results of the election.

Wisconsin Senate GOP Leader Scott Fitzgerald summed up the GOP’s power grab motives before the lame duck session saying Republicans “don’t trust Tony Evers right now.”

Wisconsin Senate GOP Leader Scott Fitzgerald: “I mean, most of these items are things (that) we never really had to kind of address because guess what — we trusted Scott Walker and the administration to be able to manage the back and forth with the Legislature. We don’t trust Tony Evers right now in a lot of these areas.”

Following an all-night, behind-the-scenes session, Wisconsin Republicans passed a wide-ranging package that diminishes the power of Governor-elect Tony Evers.

The New York Times: “The legislation was aimed at undermining Democrats. There would be a new limit on early voting, which tends to benefit Democratic candidates, after an election that saw record-breaking turnout. Lawmakers, not the governor, would control the majority of appointments on an economic development board. The legislation would also prevent Mr. Evers from banning guns in the Wisconsin Capitol without permission from legislators.”

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Republicans fan unfounded worries about voter fraud in Florida and other close contests

Florida is holding recounts in the state’s tight races for Florida’s governor, U.S. senator and agriculture commissioner, as President Trump attacked the move. (Reuters)

FORT LAUDERDALE, FL — Republicans are sowing skepticism about the electoral process in states with votes that are too close to call, echoing President Trump’s unsubstantiated allegations of voter fraud and suggesting that election officials should jettison the common practice of completing vote counts after Election Day.

Nowhere is the effort more aggressive than in Florida, where Gov. Rick Scott is tapping the powers of his administration to defend his slender lead in the U.S. Senate race and accusing Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of “trying to steal an election.” Without evidence, Trump on Twitter claimed ballots were “massively infected” in Florida and said the recount should halt — though it is mandated by state law and overseas military ballots aren’t due until Friday.

What appears to be a coordinated Republican strategy to undercut post-election vote counting is also evident in New Mexico, where Rep. Yvette Herrell (R) is refusing to concede her race to Democrat Xochitl Torres Small after absentee ballots changed her status from winner to loser, and in Arizona, where the National Republican Senatorial Committee contended a county election official had been “using his position to cook the books” for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema.

View the complete November 12 article by Beth Reinhard, Sean Sullivan and Amy Gardner on The Washington Post website here.