MADISON (WKBT) -- Wisconsin's bipartisan Elections Commission voted to approve a recommendation that denies an effort to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.Â
In a virtual meeting Thursday night, the body voted 5-0 with one abstention to deny a recall based off the petition filed Jan. 10.Â
Conservative activists filed a recall against Vos in January because they're angry Vos refused to decertify President Biden's confirmed victory in Wisconsin. Vos has no legal authority to do such a thing.
Elections Commission staff have found the petitions don't have enough valid signatures in Vos's old 63rd Assembly District to trigger a recall.
Racine County's D.A. is also investigating at least 30 cases of names fraudulently appearing on those forms.
Michael Gableman represented the recall effort during Thursday's commission meeting.
Robin Vos hired the former state justice to investigate claims of voter fraud in Wisconsin after 2020. Vos later fired Gableman after he spent $2 million of taxpayer dollars and found no evidence of fraud.
On Thursday Gableman, without proof, made accusations that the recall effort was "sabotaged." One commissioner immediately defended the staff who reviewed the signatures.
"When [petitioners] instigated this recall on Jan. 10, the person who did so listed Assembly District 63, and unless you've got something in writing that says otherwise, I am fairly confident that when our staff says they didn't tell anyone what district to file in, that they are being honest and truthful with us," Commissioner Ann Jacobs told Gableman.
The same petitioners are filing a second recall effort. Those petitions are due at the end of May.
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