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Michael Gableman delivers remarks to members of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The Republican-hired investigator of Wisconsin’s 2020 election said Tuesday that the state Legislature should “take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020” presidential election, a move that GOP leaders reiterated they won't make and that nonpartisan attorneys have said is illegal. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
Visitors listen as Michael Gableman delivers remarks to members of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The release of the Republican-hired investigator Michael Gableman's 136-page “interim report” comes amid a nationwide GOP effort to reshape elections following President Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump. The report was met with bipartisan criticism. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)
FILE- Then, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael J. Gableman speaks during a court hearing at the Grant County Courthouse in Lancaster, Wis., on Sept. 17, 2015. Before he was facing bipartisan criticism over his investigation into the 2020 presidential race in Wisconsin, the former state Supreme Court justice fought ethics complaints and allegations that he ran a racist television ad to win election to the state's highest court. (Jessica Reilly/Telegraph Herald via AP, File)
Michael Gableman delivers remarks to members of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis., Tuesday, March 1, 2022. The Republican-hired investigator of Wisconsin’s 2020 election said Tuesday that the state Legislature should “take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020” presidential election, a move that GOP leaders reiterated they won't make and that nonpartisan attorneys have said is illegal. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP)

There is a person in the state of Wisconsin. Attorneys have said that decertifying the state's presidential result is illegal, after a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice laid out his interim findings this week.

Many of Michael Gableman's claims have been rejected by the state's bipartisan election commission. Gableman, who was hired by the Assembly's top Republican, acknowledged that he had voted for Donald Trump and called the election stolen before he was ever appointed to look into it.

Here are some of the claims from his presentation to lawmakers on Tuesday.

The widespread use of Absentee ballot drop boxes violated Wisconsin law.

Absentee ballot boxes are not law in Wisconsin. Before the 2020 election, the Wisconsin Elections Commission told local election clerks that ballot boxes can be put wherever they want. The top elections official in Wisconsin testified last year that at least 528 drop boxes were used in the 2020 presidential election.

The use of ballot boxes was supported by both Republicans and Democrats. After Trump lost in Wisconsin, his supporters questioned the legality of the elections commission's guidance.

A judge in January said ballot boxes located outside of election clerks' offices are illegal because the elections commission couldn't give guidance to them. The case is before the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The elections commission last month withdrew its guidance.

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission broke the law when it directed municipal clerks not to dispatch voting assistants to nursing homes, which led to mentally fit residents casting ballots, according to Gableman.

It is more complicated than that.

State law requires local election clerks to send special voting deputies to nursing homes to give residents an opportunity to vote. Absentee ballots can be sent to the residents after the deputy tries to make two visits.

When the Wisconsin Elections Commission made its decision, the state was under a safer-at- home order and nursing homes were limiting who could come into their facilities, often not even allowing immediate family members inside.

In March 2020 the elections commission voted unanimously that poll workers could not be sent to nursing homes. The commission voted to extend the order through the November 2020 election and then to withdraw it in March 2021. The commission directed clerks to mail Absentee Ballots to nursing home residents who requested them.

The state election commissioners said they were trying to make sure nursing home residents could vote by sending in-person ballots instead of voting assistants.

The commission broke the law by not sending in the voting assistants, according to the Legislative Audit Bureau.

The district attorney declined to bring charges against the election commission members who voted against sending in helpers, despite the sheriff's argument that they should be charged with felonies. Josh Kaul, a Democrat, declined to pursue charges.

Gableman claims that mentally fit nursing home residents voted. Only a judge can declare someone incompetent to vote. Even if they are under the care of a relative, nursing home residents still have the right to vote.

Gableman played videos of attorney Kardaal interviewing people who he said had voted but who couldn't answer basic questions.

The videos were misleading because people don't have to answer questions in order to vote, said Ann Jacobs, the Democratic chairwoman of the Elections Commission.

Gableman claimed to have found 64 nursing homes in three counties, but his report didn't provide any documentation to back up his claims. Riley Vetterkind said that the elections commission was looking at claims made in the report.

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The Center for Tech and Civic Life gave $8.6 million to the cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay to help run elections.

Three lawsuits arguing that the grant funding was illegal have been rejected and a law firm hired by the state elections commission determined there was no wrongdoing.

A lawsuit was filed by Kaardal on behalf of the Wisconsin Voters Alliance in order to block the grant money in October 2020.

The judge said that there was nothing in state law that would prohibit the cities from accepting funds.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the people who brought the lawsuit did not identify any laws that would prohibit the grants.

Kaardal filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Wisconsin Voters Alliance, two Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers and others. The lawsuit sought to allow state lawmakers in Wisconsin and other states to allocate their Electoral College votes.

Kaardal was referred to a court committee for discipline for bringing the case after the judge dismissed the lawsuit. Kaardal appealed that.

The Wisconsin Voters Alliance, represented by Kaardal, asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn the election results for a number of reasons. The court refused to hear the case.

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The Legislature ought to take a very hard look at the option of decertification of the 2020 Wisconsin presidential election.

Lawmakers say they won't do it, but attorneys say it's illegal.

After Trump's loss, nonpartisan attorneys who work for the Legislature told lawmakers that decertification was not legal. Republican legislative leaders have repeatedly cited those memos as the reason why they will not attempt to reverse the 10 electoral votes that were awarded to Biden.

The Assembly has repeatedly rejected a resolution that would have decertified the vote. Jim Steineke, the Republican leader of the Assembly, said that the move was unconstitutional and would not be considered by lawmakers. Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has previously rejected calls to decertify the election. Gableman said that the move would not remove Biden from office.

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The initial vote on nursing homes was unanimous, but subsequent votes were not unanimous. The name of the group has been changed to the Thomas More Society.

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