As he conceded Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate election this week, Republican Eric Hovde raised legitimate questions about election administration in Wisconsin and in the swing state’s largest city. With vote tabulation machine security breaches and other election integrity issues again dogging Milwaukee’s ballot count, the questions were understandable. The messy Election Day caused Ron Johnson, Wisconsin’s senior senator, to conclude that Milwaukee election administration was as “grossly incompetent” as he’s ever seen.
But the usual suspects in the propaganda press hammered Hovde for not conceding until nearly two weeks after the election and raising “debunked election conspiracies.” They hinted or outright accused the Madison Republican of being an “election denier” — one of their favorite, phony scarlet letters — for weighing a costly recount of…
