By Howard Hardee, Wisconsin Watch
Knowing he would probably face fierce criticism, Rohn Bishop has raised a dissenting voice while some of his fellow conservatives argued in favor of invalidating votes in Wisconsin.
As chairman of the Republican Party of Fond du Lac County, he said he acted in defense of the party’s long-term interests. But as a rare conservative voice rejecting pervasive but baseless claims of vote fraud on social media, he faced an intense backlash from conservatives throughout the state.
In a Nov. 21 post on Twitter, Bishop said he’d spent the past decade refuting claims that state Republicans were “trying to disenfranchise people” with voter ID and signature laws. But the campaign of President Donald Trump had gone too far, he said, in legal challenges aimed at tossing out votes during the recounts in mostly liberal Dane and Milwaukee counties.
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