Reid Magney is leaving his role as spokesperson with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after 12 years, and is joining VoteRiders.org as communications director.
KAYLA WOLF, STATE JOURNAL
"We prepared for 2020 thinking our biggest challenge during the election year would be misinformation about election security, but it turned out to be dealing with the pandemic," says Reid Magney, who is leaving the Wisconsin Elections Commission to join VoteRiders.org.
As spokesperson for the Wisconsin Elections Commission for the last 12 years, Reid Magney has seen just about everything — including recall votes in 2012 following former Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s passage of Act 10, which effectively eliminated public sector unions; the implementation of voter ID laws; and recounts in 2016 and 2020.
The state has multiple, overlapping safeguards aimed at preventing ineligible voters from casting ballots, tampering with the ballots or altering vote totals.
Reid Magney is leaving his role as spokesperson with the Wisconsin Elections Commission after 12 years, and is joining VoteRiders.org as communications director.
"We prepared for 2020 thinking our biggest challenge during the election year would be misinformation about election security, but it turned out to be dealing with the pandemic," says Reid Magney, who is leaving the Wisconsin Elections Commission to join VoteRiders.org.
