WISCONSIN — The state’s top election official was interviewed earlier this year by federal officials regarding the Jan. 6 insurrection, according to Wisconsin Elections Commission Public Information Officer Riley Vetterkind.

Officials said WEC administrator Meagan Wolfe was subpoenaed by the U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith. 

In April, she was interviewed by the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Investigators have also spoken with the leader of elections in New Mexico, Michigan and Georgia.

Wolfe declined further comment on the probe, noting that it was an ongoing investigation.

Former President Donald Trump is a target of the investigation into efforts to undo results of the 2020 presidential election. He confirmed he received a letter about that matter on Tuesday. 

Wolfe is at least the third Wisconsin official to be interviewed by the DOJ.

Election leaders in Wisconsin's two largest cities of Milwaukee and Madison have also spoken with investigators as part of the Justice Department's probe into pressure campaigns by former Trump's associates aimed at undoing Democrat Joe Biden's victories in battleground states.

Madison clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl spoke with FBI agents earlier this summer, city attorney Michael Haas said on Monday. Milwaukee's election leader, Claire Woodall-Vogg, confirmed on Friday that she too had been questioned about the 2020 election. Both declined to give details about what they were asked.

Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith and his team have issued subpoenas to election officials in states that Trump disputed, seeking correspondence from Trump associates and campaign aides, and have also lined up interviews in recent months with state officials.

The communications with state officials are one prong of a much bigger probe by Smith and his team into efforts to block the transfer of power from Trump to Biden.

Biden won Wisconsin by nearly 21,000 votes, an outcome that has withstood two partial recounts, a nonpartisan audit, a conservative law firm’s review, numerous state and federal lawsuits, and a Republican-ordered review that found no evidence of widespread fraud before the investigator was fired.

That hasn’t stopped election skeptics from mounting campaigns for statewide office based on election lies or from fraudulently requesting the ballots of elected officials and military voters in attempts to find vulnerabilities. Trump has also repeated lies about the 2020 election in Wisconsin since he left office.

Trump campaign staff in Wisconsin pivoted to false allegations of widespread fraud in the moments after the election, even though they knew they had been defeated.

Wolfe, Wisconsin's nonpartisan elections leader, is in a battle over her position with Republicans who want to replace her. The state elections commission recently deadlocked on reappointing her and the state Senate is moving ahead with trying to force a vote on her removal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.