So WEC was an entity that was set up by the legislature in 2015 to provide guidance and assistance to our 1,852 municipal clerks across the state. And what's significant about that from the legal issue perspective is that The United States Constitution expressly, specifically identifies the state legislatures as the body responsible for overseeing the procedures to ensure fairness in statewide elections. Now our Wisconsin legislature, like a lot of legislatures across the country, chose to delegate that by law, by statute, to the 1,852 clerks who are assigned legal responsibility and … (06:47–07:11)
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