A Wisconsin official who served as a fake elector for then-President Donald Trump in 2020 was voted out of office on Tuesday.
Kelly Ruh, who was one of 84 people nationwide posing as alternate electors, was running for reelection as an alderperson for the town of De Pere, near Green Bay, according to Bolts. Ruh lost her election to Pamela Gantz, a real estate agent and volunteer poll worker.
“I promise not to use my position to influence any national elections or support conspiracies,” Gantz told the outlet. She vowed to keep elections in the community “fair and free.”
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The final results from Tuesday’s election show Gantz defeated Ruh with 570 votes, or 56% of the vote, while Ruh had 452 votes, or 44% of the vote, according to Fox11 News.
“Pamela Gantz’s win represents a triumph for the voters of De Pere — and for all those who believe in democracy and the freedom that comes from self-government,” Ben Wikler, the chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party, told the outlet.
Congrats to Pamela Gantz on her election to De Pere Council District 2! This is a huge win against “false elector” Kelly Ruh! #WinWithWisDems pic.twitter.com/ugBb4NodnJ
— Wisconsin Democrats (@WisDems) April 6, 2022
Gantz said the goal of her campaign was to restore peoples’ trust in “local officials” and to focus on local issues relating to the community, according to the report.
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Ruh was among the 14 alternate electors the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot subpoenaed on Jan. 28. The people from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, New Mexico, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin had been listed as being the chairperson secretary for each group of alternate electors.
President Joe Biden won the state of Wisconsin by nearly 21,000 votes, and 10 Democratic electors sent the state’s Electoral College votes to Congress.
Trump and his allies insisted that Wisconsin and several other battleground states were ripe with widespread fraud and irregularities, claims that have been roundly rejected by election officials and the courts. Amid this push to overturn the results, alternate slates of electors were prepared and sent to Washington, D.C.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission released a letter on March 15 announcing it would not be imposing sanctions on the 10 Republicans who had posed as alternate electors for the 2020 presidential election.
