Elections Commissioner Spindell defends email touting lower Milwaukee turnout

Despite empty booths at Washington High School in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood on the city's north side, poll workers say they saw light, but steady turnout, but no lines by mid-afternoon on Election Day 2020. Photo by David Wise, Nov. 3, 2020.

Elections Commissioner Bob Spindell told WisPolitics.com he rejects the suggestion that he supported voter suppression when he touted in an email to fellow GOP activists that turnout in Milwaukee was down last fall, particularly in Black and Hispanic areas.

Meanwhile, state Dem Party Executive Director Devin Remiker called Wednesday for Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu, R-Oostburg, to wit...

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