Lots of claims. Very little evidence, at least for some of them.
That’s what was in the interim report from the taxpayer-funded probe of the 2020 election that was released Tuesday.
“I thought the report was brash and rambling,” Barry Burden, University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of political science, said during an online panel hosted Wednesday by the Bipartisan Policy Center. “It touched on a lot of issues but didn't really solve or resolve any of them. It mainly raised questions and made a number of allegations that I think were not well established in the facts.”
The report claims there was 100% turnout in 12 Racine County nursing homes, 30 Milwaukee County nursing homes and 24 Dane County nursing homes.
But the report doesn’t identify any of those 66 nursing homes, or where exactly the data came from, or provide any substantiating documents or evidence to support the claims, were made in bold red type.
“Without knowing what nursing homes the claims are being made about, it’s hard to rebut them,” state Rep. Mark Spreitzer, D-Beloit, said in a phone interview Thursday morning.
Members of the Wisconsin Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, upon which Spreitzer sits, was given the report minutes before hearing testimony by Michael Gableman, the former state Supreme Court justice leading the probe. As such, committee members had little time to educate themselves on Gableman’s claims before he spoke about them and answered questions.
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