MILWAUKEE (Legal Newsline) - Election officials in the remaining unresolved states are urging voters to be patient as they ensure that each vote is counted. In Wisconsin - narrowly called for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden - more than each vote was counted, according to a breakdown of the election results by the Milwaukee City Wire News Service. And a separate, earlier analysis by the MacIver Institute of the state’s response to election fraud suggests little will be done to put an end to it.
In the 2020 presidential election, seven voting wards in Milwaukee reported more votes than they had registered voters, according to a City Wire analysis of the results and a review of Secretary of State files.
Five of those voting wards are in the city’s eleventh aldermanic ward, on the city’s far Southwest side. There, Biden bested President Donald Trump with 3,768 to 2,883 votes — a margin eight times the Hillary Clinton-Trump margin in 2016.
The MacIver analysis shows that after the 2016 presidential race, the addresses of thousands of same day registrants could not be verified. In most cases, the data was not corrected nor referred to the local district attorney’s office, as the law requires, for investigation. It’s unclear what happened to the cases that were referred.
This is how the numbers broke down: Statewide, 368,392 people in Wisconsin registered to vote on election day in November 2016.
“When the state sent postcards to their addresses to verify their residency after the election, 10,461 came back as undeliverable,” the MacIver analysis said. “Local officials claim they were able to reconcile all but 3,871 of them. That means, officially, 3,871 voters in the 2016 election cannot be verified and potentially voted illegally.”
“ Unofficially,” the report continued, “there could be as many as 10,461 cases [the total number of addresses undeliverable] of voter fraud from the 2016 election due to election day registrations (EDR) alone.”
Even though 3,871 voters across the state couldn’t be verified, only 954 were referred to the local district attorneys, the report said.
Then Milwaukee County assistant district attorney Bruce Landgraf did not return calls asking how many cases were opened in response to the referrals following the 2016 elections.
Even more evidence exists that Wisconsin voter rolls are ripe for abuse, the MacIver report said. Following the 2016 presidential election, a total of 145,109 voter records compared against DMV data came back with conflicting information. Milwaukee alone had 22,359 voter mismatches. Madison had 10,097; Green Bay had 2,815; Kenosha had 2,073; and Wausau had 1,958 bad records.
“College students’ voter records are a particular challenge,” the report said. “According to Elections Commission data, addresses at UW-Milwaukee dorms alone turned up 647 failed DMV checks. That pattern repeats in city after city with college campuses, where voter registration data is teeming with question marks.”
The AP reports that with 99 percent of the vote counted Trump lost Wisconsin to Biden by just over 20,000 votes – 1,630,542 to 1,610,007.