“We have a bunch of cheaters in our state, that’s why,” he says. Wait tells the Wisconsin Examiner that the reason the energy has remained so high in the area is that it’s represented by “cheaters.” Former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s widely derided review of the 2020 election was based in Brookfield.īut the Racine area has seen election-related right-wing activism persist past the 2022 midterms with a fervor that other parts of the state have not been able to sustain as attention has shifted to other issues. Janel Brandtjen and Tim Ramthun, came from Waukesha and Fond du Lac counties. Two of the most vocal lawmakers on the issue, Reps. Yet in the more than two years since the 2020 election, complaints of election fraud have come from all over the state. Numerous reviews, audits, lawsuits and investigations in Wisconsin have affirmed that President Joe Biden won the state and that there was no widespread election fraud. Wait is now facing criminal charges for his fraudulent absentee ballot requests. Instead of exposing a flaw, Wait informed Schmaling that he’d illegally requested and received absentee ballots on behalf of Racine’s Democratic Mayor Cory Mason and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R-Rochester). Last year, Schmaling was again involved in a right-wing allegation of election fraud when Racine County resident Harry Wait reached out to the sheriff to alert him of a vulnerability in the state’s online absentee ballot request system. In November of 2021, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling accused five of the election commission’s six members of committing felony election fraud for choosing not to force voting assistants to go in person to nursing homes to collect absentee ballots during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the two years since the 2020 election, the city of Racine and the surrounding area have become a hotbed of right-wing election-related activism. We are confident that a court will put an end to Racine’s egregious practices.” Further, although WILL’s complaint was filed in August, the WEC Administrator did not issue her decision on the matter until in-person absentee voting for the 2022 general election was essentially completed which meant that WILL could not appeal the decision until after the November general election was over. “The WEC Commissioners failed to take action and delegated the matter to the WEC Administrator who declined to enjoin Racine’s illegal behavior. “Racine’s abuse of alternate absentee ballot sites circumvents multiple statutory safeguards on the collection of absentee ballots,” WILL deputy counsel Anthony LoCoco said in a statement.
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