Tuesday’s Wisconsin vote may be one of the most important primary elections in the country. A vote on two potential amendments to the state constitution will appear on the back of ballots on April 2nd.
While many view the remaining primary elections as inconsequential with President Trump and Joe Biden having already secured their necessary delegates, both proposed amendments focus on how elections are conducted throughout the state.
Question 1 reads: Use of private funds in election administration. Shall section 7 (1) of article III of the constitution be created to provide that private donations and grants may not be applied for, accepted, expended, or used in connection with the conduct of any primary, election, or referendum?
In simple terms: It asks voters if they wish to see the elimination of private donations and grants from being used in any activities related to running elections, primaries, or referendums.
Question 2 reads: Election officials. Shall section 7 (2) of article III of the constitution be created to provide that only election officials designated by law may perform tasks in the conduct of primaries, elections, and referendums?
To summarize: Voters are deciding on whether only those who are legally recognized as election officials would be allowed to manage and oversee the voting process.
These proposed amendments should come as no surprise. Many potentially outcome-altering schemes have been questioned since the 2020 election and whether they contributed to the Badger State being decided by just 20,682 votes, or .63 percent.
None of those schemes garnered as much attention and scrutiny as the Mark Zuckerberg funded “Zuckerbucks” scheme. Zuckerberg funded the Center for Tech and Civic Life, a nonprofit organization involved in election administration, with a total of $350 million during the 2020 election cycle, $8.8 million of which was gifted to the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay to “help run elections.”
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, Michael Gableman was chosen to conduct a thorough investigation into potential wrongdoing by Wisconsin in how it carried out the 2020 election. In addition to confirming the Zuckerbuck scheme, Gableman uncovered a lesser-known ballot theft scheme that took place throughout the state’s nursing homes in the leadup to the election. Only special voting deputies are permitted to assist nursing home residents in casting absentee ballots, a legal requirement that was ignored on a massive, state-wide scale in 2020. As Gableman put it: “Rampant fraud and abuse occurred statewide at Wisconsin’s nursing homes and other residential care facilities in relation to absentee voting at these facilities. WECs (Wisconsin Election Commission’s) directives led to the abuse of some of our State’s most vulnerable citizens. Many residents were pressured to vote when there is no scenario under which that should have ever happened legally or morally. The [Office of the Special Counsel] conducted interviews with the families of several facility residents who were extremely vulnerable, and yet cast ballots in the November 2020 election.”
Gableman provided videos and interviews with nursing home residents and their loved ones showing that the residents did not vote of their own volition. In addressing the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee, Gableman estimated this impacted 91,000 votes statewide, exceeding the state margin by nearly 400 percent.
Speaker of the State Assembly Robin Vos confirmed that “there was widespread fraud,” and while Vos is a Republican, he once referred to Trump’s candidacy as a “suicide mission” for the GOP.
AMAC spoke with Award-winning Wisconsin talk show host Vicki McKenna about how she sees this unfolding. While she prefaced by saying anything is possible, McKenna said she expects the amendments to pass with 65-70% support. She referred to many Democrat voters in the state as “Democrats by habit,” meaning they are not staunch leftwing activists, but rather people who vote based on commonsense, and even voted for Republican Scott Walker in the past.
If McKenna’s prediction is correct, AMAC Action will have played a role. AMAC Action Senior Vice President Andy Mangione helped deploy a call to action campaign that notified AMAC’s 48,000 Wisconsin members to get out the vote EARLY and vote yes to both questions featured on the back of the ballot.
With Wisconsin being a pivotal swing state, the results of the amendment vote will have massive implications regarding the presidential election for the entire nation.
Matt Kane earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Stony Brook University. His work has been posted by President Trump, RealClearPolitics, and American Thinker. X/Twitter: @MattKaneUSA Truth Social @MattKane
