Timothy Ramthun, joined by Mike Lindell, announced his bid in the Wisconsin gubernatorial race on Saturday.
Wisconsin Rep. Timothy Ramthun, a Trump-backed Republican known to tout election fraud claims, announced his bid for governor on Saturday and vowed to conduct a"full forensic audit" of the 2022 race—regardless of who wins., a keynote speaker during the event. In his speech, the lawmaker stressed that election safety and focusing on the 2020 presidential election would be a central part of his gubernatorial campaign.
"I'm going to do a full forensic physical cyber audit of the 2022 gubernatorial election, no matter the outcome of this year's elections. I want everything to be revisited and reviewed," Ramthun said during his announcement. It is unclear what he meant by a"full forensic physical cyber audit," with experts in election administration tellingthat there is no such thing. However, the outlet noted that he may instead be referring to a manual recount of paper ballots or a review of voting machine equipment that will be used during the election, which falls in line with election safeguards that already exist in Wisconsin.
Ramthun's focus on election audits comes as he attempts to lead an effort in the Wisconsin GOP to overturn the state's 2020 election results in Trump's favor. Last month, heto"reclaim" and revoke Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, which lawyers and experts have said will be an impossible feat. "There are some who believe—there's one who believes—that we somehow have the right [to withdraw electoral votes] even though every lawyer that we have worked with in Wisconsin says we cannot undo the 2020 elections,"the state's Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos told the
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