During his testimony, Gableman said, "I think the legislature ought to take a very hard look at the decertification of the 2020 election." Independent legal scholars and election experts have said that decertification is not a legal possibility, and during the hearing, the legislative counsel for the elections committee said that the "Door is closed" on elections once votes are cast and sealed.
Attempts to assert political control over election results and administration.
Gableman also called for the state's legislature to establish "Processes for standardizing challenges both pre- and post-certification." In the report, Gableman said that such an act - which would seemingly validate the false assertion that elections can be revisionally "Decertified" - could "Establish opportunities to raise or expedite decertification procedures on the floor of the Assembly or Senate."
Another recommendation in the report suggested that "a politically accountable body, such [as] an association of elected county clerks," should be responsible for the certification of Wisconsin's presidential electors, taking oversight away from the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission.
If enacted, such a measure could allow partisan officials to reject valid election results or certify invalid results, undermining the will of Wisconsin voters based on the same baseless conspiracy theories that pervade all of the Big Lie attacks on the 2020 election, including Gableman's work.
Documents previously uncovered by American Oversight suggest that some conservative lawmakers in Wisconsin have raised questions about ERIC's role in state elections in recent months.
Several elements of Gableman's report and testimony discussed election audits, including a recommendation to establish a new office - separate from the already-existing Legislative Audit Bureau - to "Engage in auditing and oversight of elections." Gableman also stated that his office plans to continue investigating certain aspects of the 2020 election, such as voting in nursing homes, "With an eye towards completing that audit."
The report noted that Gableman and the OSC have not completed a "Full audit" of Wisconsin's 2020 election, and suggested that such a probe would "Take a comprehensive look at election processes, contracts, and machines, to stress test and run other technical reviews." The conclusion of the report raised the possibility of OSC overseeing such a review, revealing that the office "Has engaged with outside contractors and entered preliminary steps in the government procurement process."
Should Wisconsin officials seek to pursue an Arizona-style "Audit," American Oversight has extensive experience uncovering records of such undertakings, having already obtained and published tens of thousands of pages of public records from the Maricopa County election review conducted by Cyber Ninjas last year.
Gableman has issued a number of subpoenas to local mayors and election officials, and on Tuesday, he suggested that he would continue pressing for their closed-door testimony.
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