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NARRATIVE OF A PERFECT 2020 ELECTION ERODING AS WISCONSIN BECOMES INVESTIGATIVE
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Evidence grows of election mismanagement, illegal acts and some fraud in several
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> Following the LAB report, what Sheriff Schmaling has uncovered + disclosed
> might only be tip of the iceberg of fraud in the 2020 election. The
> Legislature must be given the time, resources, and cooperation of election
> officials to conduct a complete investigation of allegations.
> https://t.co/GNLBNwSJ6n— Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) October 28, 2021

Cognitively impaired nursing home residents in Wisconsin and Michigan cynically
exploited for votes. Election mismanagement in Atlanta. Unlawful election
instructions in Wisconsin. And 50,000 questionable ballots in Arizona, plus
several criminal cases for illegal ballot harvesting and inmate voting.



Eleven months after Donald Trump was ousted from office, the narrative that the
2020 election was clean and secure has frayed like a well-worn shoelace. The
challenges of the COVID pandemic, the aggressive new tactics of voting activists
and the desire of Democrats to make the collection and delivery of ballots by
third parties legal in states where harvesting is expressly forbidden has
muddied the establishment portrait and awakened the nation to the painful
reality its election system — particularly in big urban areas — is far from
perfection.

Nowhere has that story become more clear than the battleground state of
Wisconsin, where a local sheriff on Thursday dramatically held a nationally
televised news conference alleging he had found evidence of felony crimes
involving ballots sent to nursing home residents.

Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said his investigators have secured
evidence that eight out of 42 residents at a local nursing home had been
recorded as casting absentee ballots that their families said was not possible
because the residents didn't possess the cognitive ability to vote.

The probe was prompted by one family who discovered their loved one had voted in
the November 2020 election despite having died a month earlier after a long
period of mental decline, authorities said.

Schmaling dramatically accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the state's
election bureaucracy, of creating the conditions for such voting by mailing
absentee ballots to nursing home residents who didn't request them and
empowering nursing home staff to fill out ballots on behalf of the residents.

The "election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered," he said.

The nursing home scheme alleged by Schmaling was also found in neighboring
Michigan, where Democratic Attorney General Dana Nessel earlier this month
announced three women were charged with voting fraud, including one who
fraudulently filled out ballots in the names of nursing home residents without
their permission.

But the nursing home case is far from the only concern that has rocked
Wisconsin, where Joe Biden was certified the winner over Trump with a razor-thin
margin of about 20,000 votes. The non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau released
a sweeping report last month that accused election officials of engaging in
"inconsistent administration" of election laws, troublesome management of new
drop boxes used to collect ballots during the pandemic, ineffective
investigation of fraud complaints, and other problems.

While it did not offer evidence of systemic fraud, it flagged more than 30
problems as well as many more issues that lawmakers should resolve for future
elections. You can read that report here:

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21-19full.pdf

The report prompted the GOP leader of the Wisconsin Senate to launch an
investigation into the November election, augmenting a separate probe already
authorized by the Wisconsin Assembly that is being led by former state Supreme
Court Justice Michael Gableman.

And those developments follow a ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court that
concluded state election officials wrongly allowed tens of thousands of
Wisconsin voters to skip voter ID requirements and file absentee ballots by
declaring their concerns about COVID made them “indefinitely confined.” While
the court ruled the advice was illegal, it noted there was no penalty and said
it was up to voters to decide if they had an infirmity or disability that made
them confined. Lawmakers are now looking to change the weaknesses in that law.



Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) the former chairman of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee, which oversees elections, said the dizzying revelations coming from
his own state were a clear sign that lawmakers have far more work ahead of them
to improve election administration and ensure voters are treated more evenly.



"Following the LAB report, what Sheriff Schmaling has uncovered + disclosed
might only be tip of the iceberg of fraud in the 2020 election," Johnson
tweeted. "The Legislature must be given the time, resources, and cooperation of
election officials to conduct a complete investigation of allegations."

Similarly, state officials in Georgia, where Trump lost by a slim margin, have
found evidence that its major urban voting center of Fulton County had
significant problems administering the November election, so much so that state
officials have begun the process of taking the county's election management into
receivership, removing local control for the 2022 election and beyond.

That dramatic move came after Just the News unearthed a 29-page memo from a
state observer that found officials in Futon County engaged in all sorts of
misconduct and mistakes, including insecure transport of ballots, double
scanning of ballots and possible invasions of voter privacy.

And earlier this month, two Fulton County workers were fired for allegedly
shredding ballot applications in violation of state law. Secretary of State Brad
Raffensperger even asked the U.S. Justice Department to assist in the
investigation.

And in nearby DeKalb County, Raffensperger has initiated a separate probe into
whether ballots cast in "drop boxes" were properly handled and logged.

Meanwhile, the fallout from the Arizona Senate's audit continues to be felt, as
more than 50,000 ballots have been called into question and several matters
referred to Attorney General Mark Brnovich for possible prosecution. Even before
those referrals, Brnovich's office has brought several criminal prosecutions,
including prison inmates who illegally voted as well as some people accused of
harvesting ballots from third parties.

The harvesting cases in Arizona as well as the nursing home cases in the Midwest
are opening up a new line of inquiry that could drive the election integrity
debate well into 2022. The emerging question: Is it possible that residents
legally allowed to vote had their votes illegally gathered and delivered by
third parties?

It's a question several state officials told Just the News they have begun
investigating, meaning the term "ballot harvesting" may become more familiar to
Americans in the weeks and months ahead.  

Meanwhile, the news media and state officials may have to grapple with a more
difficulty reality: It doesn't require widespread fraud for Americans to lose
faith in the election system. Mismanagement, uneven application of the laws and
plain old carelessness can sow deep distrust.






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