MADISON - Assembly Republicans' review of the 2020 election has expanded outside of Wisconsin with subpoenas to two companies that manufacture voting machines and software.
Former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman in December issued orders to Colorado-based Dominion Voting Systems and Electronic Systems & Software of Nebraska seeking records related to the location of the companies' voting machines in Wisconsin during the primary and general elections in 2020. Gableman also seeks information about staff members who worked on Wisconsin machines or communicated with anyone in Wisconsin during that period.
Gableman's subpoenas, first reported by WisPolitics, demand company officials produce the requested documents later this month and order them to testify in private at the former Supreme Court justice's rented office space in Brookfield. Gableman set a series of deadlines to receive the documents and testimony, with the earliest on Wednesday.
It is unclear what authority Gableman and Assembly Republicans have to demand information from out-of-state entities. They have no easy way to get the companies to comply with their subpoenas since neither is based in Wisconsin.
Multiple phone calls to Gableman and a spokeswoman for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos were not returned Friday. Officials with Dominion and Electronic Systems & Software also did not respond to questions from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
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