The attorney general for Wisconsin Called for a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election to be stopped, saying it lacks credibility.
Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul shared in a news conference on Monday that the investigation was a waste of taxpayer money and that it wasn't serious.
"This investigation suffers from glaring flaws that destroy any credibility its results could have had," Kaul said. "Shut this fake investigation down."
Michael Gableman, a retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading the investigation, had issued a video over the weekend taking aim at the state's governor Tony Evers, the Associated Press reported.
In the video, Evers told local election officials they should be "lawyered up" and called the taxpayer-funded investigation a $700,000 "boondoggle."
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Gableman said the comments from Evers are "incomplete and misguided" when talking about the probe.
"I would like to ask Tony Evers how is it a boondoggle for the people of Wisconsin to find out if their elections were run fairly?" Gableman asked in the video. "What's the alternative? The alternative is looking the other way."
A spokeswoman for Evers, Britt Cudaback, compared the investigation to a circus and then called Gableman the ringleader. Cudaback also shared that Gableman has no idea how the election process works, sharing that he "has predetermined the results of this sham review."
Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos ordered the investigation after receiving pressure from former President Donald Trump, who claimed he won the Wisconsin electoral votes in the 2020 election.
Vos said the investigation would continue "in order to restore confidence in our election system."
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In a statement, Vos also mentioned that the issue should be investigated by both sides.
"Election integrity should be a bipartisan effort," Vos said. "Sadly, Attorney General Kaul has sided with the out-of-state billionaires meddling in our elections and ignored Wisconsin citizens who bring up irregularities."
On Monday, the chair of the Assembly elections committee, Republican Representative Janel Brandtjen, shared that anything short of a recount of all ballots that look at voting machines would not restore faith in Wisconsin's election.
