Wisconsin: Green Bay’s dirty election laundry aired at hearing

Empower Wisconsin:

By M.D. Kittle

MADISON — Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, an election official for 22 years, said she had never seen anything like what she saw in Green Bay during the 2020 presidential election — and she hopes she’ll never see it again.

Juno was among five witnesses to testify Wednesday at an Assembly Campaign and Elections hearing into the control Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich’s office ceded to private, left-leaning groups and a former Democratic operative in overseeing the election.

“I felt it put a taint on the integrity of the election,” Juno told the committee. “And I come to find out later he (an outside ‘consultant’) had all four keys and access to the (absentee) ballots days prior to the election. How can we be bringing in people from outside organizations to be working on our elections with third-party money? That really doesn’t meet the smell test.”

As Wisconsin Spotlight first reported this week, emails and other documents show private left-leaning groups, funded largely by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, exerting significant influence over the administration of the presidential election in Wisconsin’s five largest cities.

Among the more shocking findings from the emails: Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, with a lengthy resume of working with Democrat candidates, served as a de facto elections administrator and had access to Green Bay’s absentee ballots days before the election. And Spitzer-Rubenstein asked Green Bay’s clerk if he and his team members could help correct or “cure” absentee ballots like they did in Milwaukee. MORE