Wisconsin Senate Republicans voted to remove a top election official in the state on Thursday, leaving the question of who is overseeing elections in the battleground up in the air ahead of the 2024 presidential race.

Days after a Republican-led committee recommended Meagan Wolfe's removal, the full Senate voted by a party-line vote of 22 to 11 to fire her, and her replacement as elections administrator will likely be decided in court.

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Despite the ousting of Wolfe, she is likely to remain in her position as the fight to replace her as the commissioner plays out in court. The Wisconsin Elections Commission was deadlocked on Wolfe's renomination in June, with Democratic members citing a 2022 state Supreme Court ruling that allows officers to stay in their role indefinitely if they do not step down when their term expires.

Wolfe has led the agency since 2018 and became a target for Republicans following former President Donald Trump's 2020 election loss, where he and his GOP allies claimed he won in Wisconsin. The former president lost a federal lawsuit following the election, where he insisted the race was stolen, and the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected another lawsuit in which he attempted to overturn his election loss.

Republicans have also ripped into Wolfe for policies enacted as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, when the bipartisan panel of six commissioners voted to allow special voting deputies to assist with absentee ballots, and allowed clerks to make minor corrections on absentee ballot addresses.

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Two of the three Republicans who voted not to give Wolfe another term as elections commission chief said they did so because the commission did not testify, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Wolfe did not attend a Senate committee meeting hearing public testimony last month, citing a letter from Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul, who said “there is no question” that she’ll remain in her position, saying her job is secure.