Audio Recordings Reveal WI AG Promised Action Over Fraud at RNC

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New audio uncovered by the Wisconsin news site Wispolitics.com, reveals that during a speech at the Republican National Convention, Wisconsin’s attorney general, J.B. Van Hollen promised action on voter fraud.

At the time of the statement, Van Hollen hadn’t filed suit against the Government Accountability Board — which oversees state elections — demanding that they verify all of the voter registrations filed since January 2006. As a result, his statement at the RNC stands in sharp contrast to his claims that the suit is not politically motivated.

“There was no discussion with anybody involved in leadership with the Republican Party (or the McCain campaign) about this lawsuit before it was brought,” Van Hollen said earlier last month.

“We’re out there fighting to make sure that within the context of ‘little-L,’ liberal voter registration law that we have in the state of Wisconsin, that even though in the context of that law we can’t prevent everybody from voting who isn’t entitled to vote and preserve the right for everybody who is entitled to vote, to vote, but we are going to do our best, as the lawyers for the state of Wisconsin, as the defenders and protectors of the law of the state of Wisconsin, of the people who are there to defend your right to have your vote matter,” Van Hollen said on September 4th at the RNC.

“We are out there front and center everyday and you’ll be hearing much more from the Department of Justice in the coming months about doing what we can to make sure that those people who have illegally and illegitimately registered to vote, don’t have the opportunity on election day to show up and take away your vote by casting one that is not legal,” he continued.

Joe Wineke, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin was distressed at the audio of Van Hollen’s statements.

“If JB Van Hollen is claiming this lawsuit isn’t political, then why did he discuss it with the RPW Chair at a partisan political convention and then send signals to fellow Republicans that he was mobilizing the Department of Justice to take action?,” said Wineke in a press release.

Listen to a portion of the audio of Van Hollen’s speech here.

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