The future of Wisconsin’s top election administrator, a respected and experienced elections official, is uncertain as state Republicans continue to fan the flames of rightwing conspiracy theories about her role in the 2020 election.
When Meagan Wolfe took over as interim elections administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) in 2018, her appointment to the seat was uncontroversial. Then the assistant elections administrator, Wolfe had helped run Wisconsin elections since 2011, redesigning the state’s online voter information portal and overseeing IT and cybersecurity work on elections statewide. Republicans in the state senate confirmed her appointment to helm the WEC unanimously in 2019.
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But by her term’s conclusion last month, bipartisan support for the administrator had evaporated. Rightwing activists and public figures who falsely claimed the 2020 election was stolen pointed to the WEC, and Wolfe, as conspirators in a plot to deliver the presidency to Democrats. Republicans in office echoed the conspiracy theorists’ allegations that the WEC had bungled the 2020 election – if not outright endorsing their claims of fraud.
In recent weeks, Wolfe’s reappointment has become a messy political showdown between elections officials and Republicans in the state senate. Though she currently remains in her role, the battle alarms elections experts, who worry that...
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