Jury finds former Milwaukee election official guilty of obtaining fake absentee ballots
Jury finds former Milwaukee election official guilty of obtaining fake absentee ballots
A jury has found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty of misconduct in office and fraud.
A jury has found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty of misconduct in office and fraud.
..... and now this MAGAt gets to go to jail, because she's a criminal, who tried to prove that Democrats were doing criminal shit, which they weren't.
it's the chef's kiss of fuck around and find out. it's like orgasm ice cream.
She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.
So we're also investigating Janel Brandtjen, right?
What? Of course not! We need to keep investigating Biden! He has Hilary's emails and Hunter's connection to Saudi prince's need to be uncovered!
Yes, there is a lot of proof the President's son is elbow deep in the Saudis.
Wait what's that? Which one? Right.
I've just been informed it's actually his son in law and his name is Kushner, not Biden.
Ok, it is a bit disconcerting that she was so easily able to fraudulently obtain mail-in ballots. But fraudulent ballots =/= fraudulent votes. I assume there’s a method in place for verifying the authenticity of a mail-in ballot. I’m sure they check it against voter rolls. What was she trying to prove, that it’s too easy to get a mail-in ballot? Not exactly a voter fraud smoking gun 🤷♂️
Well, she was deputy director of the local election commission. Not surprising that she could get them. The fact that she was caught so easily, even when she's at a relatively high level in the system, suggests the system does work.
The article was kind of vague, but I read it to mean she obtained the fraudulent ballots using methods available to the public, not in her official capacity.
I have no idea how it’s done in WI, but here in MA:
- You register to vote, including providing your signature on a registration card.
- You request a mail-in ballot
- when you receive the ballot you fill it out
- You place the ballot in a blank envelope that came with the ballot.
- You place THAT envelope inside a second one that’s already addressed back to city hall, and includes your name/address on the outside (and I think a barcode). That envelope also has to be signed by you or the ballot won’t be accepted.
My understanding is that when city hall receives it that it goes through the following process:
- They confirm you actually requested a mail-in ballot and that one was in fact mailed to you.
- The signature on the envelope is at least a rough match of the one in your voter registration.
- The voter rolls are checked to confirm they have not already received a ballot from you.
- The inner envelope is removed and confirmed to be sealed.
- The voter rolls are updated to indicate your vote has been received.
- The outer envelope is thrown away.
- The inner envelope, still sealed, is added to the pile of all other ballots that have been received.
On Election Day those envelopes are opened and the ballots are counted.
If at any point in the process a discrepancy occurs then a formal investigation is launched. This includes receiving more than one ballot from an individual, somebody showing up to vote in person after a mail-in ballot was received for them , etc.
She did get caught
The article said she sent the fraudulent ballots to her Republican representative, I'm guessing to say "look how easy it is to get fraudulent ballots" since her rep is a conspiracy theorist who thinks the election was stolen. I'm curious if there's a mechanism in place to catch people obtaining fraudulent ballots who don't literally send proof of their crime to an elected official.