Organizers of an effort to oust Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos announced on March 10 that their petition had collected enough signatures to trigger a recall election.
Mr. Vos’s response to certain election integrity efforts in the wake of the 2020 election drew the ire of supporters of former President Donald Trump who maintain that the election was stolen.
Campaign organizer Matt Snorek of Racine County now says the petition has collected more than the necessary 6,850 signatures from voters in Mr. Vos’s southeast Wisconsin district.
“With more than 10,000 signatures on our recall petition, they’ve said it loud and clear: they’re tired of the status quo and demand new representation,” Mr. Snorek said in a statement.
The signatures will be presented to the Wisconsin Elections Commission on March 11.
Mr. Vos has waved off the initiative as a “misguided” and unserious effort that would only waste time and resources. He repeated that stance on March 10, questioning the validity of the collected signatures and promising to have his team scrutinize “each individual signature.”
The move to oust Mr. Vos shows that concerns over the 2020 election and election integrity still linger in the Badger State.
Wisconsin was one of the key battleground states. On election night, President Trump was leading Wisconsin before a haul of votes for then-candidate Joe Biden flipped the script overnight.
Mr. Gableman has claimed that Mr. Vos “never wanted a real investigation” in the first place.
The ruling prompted a Truth Social post from the former president urging Mr. Vos to “turn over the election to the actual winner.”
President Trump also made the request via phone, according to the speaker.
The campaign to recall the lawmaker is supported by MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, who spoke at an event promoting the initiative on Feb 4.
Mr. Lindell has been a prominent voice among those still questioning the 2020 election results. His legal team will file a lawsuit with the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the integrity of voting machines on behalf of Arizona’s ex-gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake on March 14.