If I Did It: Confessions of an Election Rigger

[TexasTowelie]

This week, we found the absentee ballot fraud in Wisconsin, and wouldn’t you know it, it was Republicans doing it. Admitted felon Harry Wait of Racine County fraudulently requested ballots for 10 or so people who were not him using Wisconsin’s amazing and helpful elections website, MyVote.wi.gov. This violated state law, as the Wisconsin Elections Commission pointed out.

Wait’s admitted lawbreaking method fits nicely within the utterly false “2000 Mules” fantasy that is the current fever dream of election deniers. That is, left-leaning nonprofit organizations (never named in the film) fraudulently obtained tens of thousands of ballots and paid thousands of “mules” (also never identified by name in the film, or apparently to authorities because no one has been arrested for this scheme) to stuff those ballots–all with votes for Joe Biden–into ballot dropboxes. Why the nonprofits didn’t just drop these postage-paid absentee ballots into the mail, I have no idea. But it apparently was very, very important to the organizations to have their mules stuff the ballots into many different drop boxes all over town in several places. One of those places was Milwaukee, and the team behind the film fed our Assembly Elections and Campaigns Committee a lot of lies about it back in March.

But for funsies, let’s play the If I Did It game–what are the steps I, your humble folkbum, and your not-so-humble Democratic Party Election Rigger, would have taken in order to steal the 2020 Wisconsin election from Donald Trump in the manner now-admitted felon Harry Wait suggests we did.

Read more: https://bloggingblue.com/2022/07/if-i-did-it-confessions-of-an-election-rigger/

[Walleye]

1. 2000 votes would not have swung any of these elections. They are so bad at math

[liberal N proud]

2. Who was it calling fraud in Wisconsin? Republicans

Republicans know there is fraud because republicans are committing said fraud.

[sybylla]

3. The whole absentee ballot witness thing is the spring in the trap.

Witnesses have to sign, date, and list their address. Those are checked by the clerk before election day and/or the poll workers before opening envelopes containing ballots on election day. For 8000 ballots, you'd need 4000 different witnesses with valid addresses and distinct signatures just to avoid raising alarms.

Also, in non-COVID years, clerks send election deputies to nursing homes to conduct balloting in person. Observers are allowed to follow the deputy around. I did this in 2008 in several precincts with large nursing homes in my county. Each county would have done this differently in 2020 because of COVID and each nursing home's safety restrictions. The "indefinitely confined" who would NOT fall under this service are those who are not able to get out of their own home or at assisted living centers on election day. That's an even harder number to come up with.

You still need 8000 names with birthdays and addresses just to request a ballot as an "indefinitely confined" through MyVote and, as the article points out, you'd have to know they didn't already request one or, worse, show up at the polls to vote.