Wisconsin’s WAUKESHA (WBAY) – On behalf of veterans and Waukesha County voters, the conservative Thomas More Society filed a lawsuit on Friday, requesting that a judge force Wisconsin election authorities to sequester all military absentee and mail-in ballots.
Elections authorities must set aside military ballots so that their legitimacy can be confirmed, according to the lawsuit, which asks the Waukesha County Circuit Court for an interim injunction.
The Milwaukee Election Commission assistant administrator’s termination after confessing to requesting military ballots improperly served as the impetus for the lawsuit. According to the criminal complaint, Kimberly Zapata, when she was deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, used the MyVote Wisconsin website to request three ballots, using fictitious names, filling in fields claiming each was in the military, and mailing them to the home of Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen.
One of the parties being sued is Brandtjen.
The system’s flaw, according to Zapata, is that military personnel’s requests for votes aren’t verified for the accuracy of their addresses.
According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, only 0.07 percent of ballots cast in the state are military ballots.
When Zapata looked for Brandtjen’s home mailing address, she is also charged with abusing her position of power.
Michael Gableman, a former justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, is currently a senior counsel for the Thomas More Society. Gableman was appointed as special counsel to investigate fraud in the 2020 election in Wisconsin earlier this year and found none but identified what he called “systemic problems.
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In a statement from the Thomas More Society, Gableman wrote, “Each municipal clerk is required, under Wisconsin election law, to maintain and distribute an up-to-date, complete, verified, current, and accurate roll of all eligible military electors who reside in the municipality. Yet, the Wisconsin Election Commission’s guidance to clerks on military absentee ballots does not require any of those standards to be met, nor does it even mention a ‘military elector list.
’” In September, Gableman was in court representing a man who admitted to making fraudulent requests for ballots on MyVote Wisconsin. Local clerks examined the requests and rejected them because the defendant, Harry Wait, used private individuals’ names but not their actual addresses.
Wisconsin election authorities are asked by a lawsuit to withhold military ballots.
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