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Robin Vos’ statement on voter fraud emboldens Wisconsin election deniers without delivering the ‘decertification’ they seek

Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the university’s Elections Research Center, said Vos’ statement will make it even more difficult to assuage concerns within his party over the 2020 election.

“To suggest that it was sort of endemic it was everywhere and substantial. That’s a big statement,” Burden said.

“Even if none of this other stuff had been happening, the investigations, or (Rep. Tim) Ramthun’s (decertification) efforts or anything else, but the speaker of the assembly to say there was widespread fraud in a statewide election is a real statement and a real change.”