Less than two weeks before the Aug. 9 primary election, Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling called on Wisconsin election officials to immediately suspend a major portion of the state-run absentee ballot program. He also requested an immediate statewide investigation based on an alleged serious threat to voter integrity.
In a posting on social media, the Sheriff’s Office said it was acting in response to citizen complaints that reported “apparent vulnerabilities to fraudulent voting within the state’s website MyVote Wisconsin.”
MyVote Wisconsin is an official online elections administration and information website.
The Sheriff’s Office stated citizens have reported that “With only a person’s name and date of birth, anyone can request another person’s ballot and have the ballot sent to any address entered. No identification is needed, and the requester can make a declaration of being indefinitely confined, thus, for the current and future elections, the requester will be sent someone else’s ballot at the different address.”…