“Yes. Anything fishy should be highlighted. Stories should be solicited by talk radio hosts.”

In another email, Jensen writes that Prosser “needs to be on talk radio in the morning saying he is confident he won and talk radio needs to scream the Dems are trying to steal the race.”

Prosser went on to win the election in a recount. He served five more years on the high court before stepping down in July.

In a Wednesday post to his “Election Law Blog,” Rick Hasen, an election law expert at UC-Irvine, wrote the emails show “all this talk of fraud is all about manipulating Republican public opinion.”

“This cynical “messaging” is sadly validating of what many of us have said,” Hasen wrote.

Some Republican elected officials have cited concerns with voter fraud to justify the state’s voter ID requirement and other measures.

Assembly Democratic Leader Peter Barca of Kenosha told the Wisconsin State Journal in a statement that the exchange shows Republicans “clearly had no qualms about deceiving Wisconsin voters.”