Wisconsin Conservatives Cite ‘Election Bribery’ in State Supreme Court Defeat

excalibur · Apr 14, 2023

The Democrats are buying votes and have been slowly expanding this heinous action in preparation for 2024.

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The app taught the mobilizers to make a list of 75 family members, friends, former classmates, and coworkers, and then contact each one four times before the election urging them to get out and vote for progressive ideas and candidates.

A trainer’s explanation captured on a recording of the Zoom call made express mention of Janet Protasiewicz.

Mobilizers were promised up to $270 in gift cards if they made the contacts required and an additional $30 payment for each person they recr ited to download the training app.

The sophisticated project also contained a way for the creators to statistically measure the effectiveness of the operation in the Wisconsin election.

In a recorded online training session obtained by Just the News, organizers claimed their methodology was first tried in 2020 during the Georgia Senate runoff election and that it worked well in Nevada in the 2022 midterms.

In that session, the trainers also said the program may be rolled out to all of the swing states in 2024.

Smacks of ‘Bribery’

In a press release, state Rep. Janel Brandtjen (R-Menomonee Falls) said, “Wisconsin Takes Action seems to have reached out to hundreds, if not thousands, of voters around the state using Zoom calls to commit election bribery” and that the practice may violate Wisconsin law.

The pertinent state statute makes it a felony for any person to offer, give, lend, or promise to give or lend, or to endeavor to procure, anything of value to an elector, or to any other person in order to induce him to go to or refrain from going to the polls; and to vote or refrain from voting for or against a particular person or referendum.

It is also a felony in Wisconsin to receive, agree or contract to receive or accept any money, gift, loan, or other valuable consideration in return for going to the polls or refraining from going, and voting for or against a particular person or referendum.

Win at Any Cost

Brandtjen said the gift card tactic called into question the integrity of the 2023 Supreme Court election.

“The willingness of these groups to win by any means necessary should disgust … all the voters of Wisconsin, as this election has now been tainted,” she said in the press release.

Peter Bernegger of the national election integrity group Election Watch told The Epoch Times that a federal law relating to expenditures to influence voting (18 U.S. Code 597) may also have been violated by the practice employed in Wisconsin.

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