Wisconsin Elections Commission Rejects Another Petition to Recall Speaker Vos

The agency charged with regulating elections in a key battleground state has rebuffed the latest effort to recall Robin Vos, the Republican Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly. The vote on June 27 was 4 to 2. Commissioner Carrie Riepl, a Democratic Party appointee, sided with the three Republican Party appointees, Commissioners Marge Bostelmann, Robert Spindell, and Don Millis, to reject a recall petition for Speaker Vos. The two other commissioners elevated by the Democratic Party, Chair Amy Jacobs and Mark Thomsen, were in opposition. The vote came one day before a deadline on the matter. Commission staff materials suggest the recall would have been held on Aug. 6, in the run-up to the presidential election and just weeks after the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee....