WISCONSIN – The Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin is labelling efforts by the federal government to acquire information from states including Wisconsin as federal overreach. State officials across the country are trying to understand why the federal government is looking to acquire this information, especially as individual states are responsible for conducting their election processes. In response to these requests, the Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin board (former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, former Attorney General JB Van Hollen, former U.S. Representative Scott Klug, former Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Mike Tate) released the following statement:
“Wisconsin is responsible for our elections and any attempts by the Department of Justice to intervene is a textbook example of a case of federal overreach. Multiple audits and internal investigations have shown that Wisconsin’s elections are secure, and these repeated attempts to insert the federal government into a state action undermine the reality that Wisconsin elections are free, fair, and secure.”
