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Why state lawmakers are clashing over reappointing Wisconsin’s elections administrator

A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter fills us in on a state Senate public hearing this week — filled with debunked claims of 2020 election fraud — to discuss reappointing Meagan Wolfe to be administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. State Attorney General Josh Kaul has said the proceedings are illegal under Wisconsin law. Then David T. Canon, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, analyzes the situation, and this instance of the governing style of Republican legislative leaders.