Ron Johnson supports the audit of Wisconsin’s 2020 elections, saying he has spoken to Sidney Powell

Republican Senator of Wisconsin Ron Johnson Zeng said that he supports auditing the results of the 2020 elections in his hometown.

He also mentioned that he had a conversation with Sidney Powell, a former lawyer who was running for reelection. Donald Trump. She promoted baseless conspiracy theories about fraud in the 2020 election.

Johnson made a comment while talking to political reporter Lauren Windsor.

“I do think it’s too focused on [voting] Machine,” he told Windsor. “We have paper ballots. We have machine logs. We got the total number of machines. We should focus on this. “

“Then we should focus on the Wisconsin State Electoral Commission, the voting in the park, the handling of votes, what Zuckerberg did, and the central vote counting in Milwaukee,” he continued.

“I also talked with Sidney Powells and Russ Ramslands,” he added. “I have seen those people.” Ramsland was a failed congressional candidate who also promoted voter fraud conspiracy theories.

Johnson’s comment mentioned several different concerns, namely Republicans There is a difference with the last election.He and other state Republicans questioned whether Wisconsin State Election Commission officials mishandled mailed votes to benefit the current Democratic president Joe Biden.

He also claimed that the two “Park Democracy” events held in September and October 2020 constituted an illegal vote harvesting. According to PolitiFact, state law does not expressly prohibit such incidents.

Johnson also questioned ballot fixation, the process by which election clerks repair or fill in voter information missing from the ballot. According to WTMJ-TV, a survey in February 2021 found that nearly 75% of Wisconsin Democratic and Republican voters hope that the state legislature will set clearer standards and stipulate which mistakes election clerks can correct.

Johnson Reference Facebook Founder mark Zuckerberg Refers to Zuckerberg’s Organizational Technology and Civic Life Center (CTCL) in a $6.3 million grant to Wisconsin’s five largest cities to help them conduct elections during the pandemic.

State Republicans implied that the funding allowed private companies to influence the election, but the pre-election court ruling allowed CTCL’s funding to continue.

The central counting facility in Milwaukee has been the subject of many conspiracy theories. The claim that facility officials tampered with flash drives to help the state elect Biden is considered “false” USA Today.

As for Powell and Ramsland, both peddled groundless conspiracy theories, believing that the voting machine contained a way for officials to manipulate votes in favor of candidates.

After the 2020 election, Powell claimed that the Democratic and Republican candidates paid fees to foreign governments to change the voting machine and convert Trump’s votes into Biden’s votes. She also stated that these machines allow officials to convert enough votes to help other individual candidates win elections.

Powell said: “We don’t know how many Republican or Democratic candidates across the country spend money to make this system work for them,” Powell said, but did not provide any evidence to support her claims.

On November 21, Powell appeared on the conservative network Newsmax, where she was Claims that she has evidence that 7 million votes were fraudulent For Biden’s benefit. By November 22, Trump’s re-election campaign stated that Powell no longer plays the official role of campaign lawyer.

Powell too Sued by Dominion Voting Systems Because of her “defamatory” remarks.

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