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.
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.
Hmm that’s a good point but the article doesn’t explicitly say. It does mention another person getting caught for the same thing. It does say she made up the names and social security numbers, I can’t imagine anyone could get away with that since the ballots would be verified when counted. Either way I love the fact these people prove themselves wrong and then go to jail for it
Edit: you’re right WaPo reports the lawmaker turned her in
Definitely my favorite part of the story. I’m sure that once the ballots are cast there’s some sort of verification process, because why the hell wouldn’t there be…I guess I’m just confused as to why there’s no verification when the ballots are requested in the first place. It’s one thing to commit identity theft and use a real person’s name and SSN, but the fact that you can just make up a name and SSN and get a ballot sent you you baffles me.