Wisconsin lawmaker sues to stop immediate counting of military ballots - The Washington Post

Last week, Brandtjen received 3 subject ballots nether fictitious names that were allegedly sent to her by Kimberly Zapata, a Milwaukee predetermination official. Election officials person criticized Brandtjen for spreading mendacious claims astir the system, and Zapata aboriginal told prosecutors she was trying to alert Brandtjen astir an existent weakness successful the state’s voting strategy that should beryllium addressed.

Unlike astir states, Wisconsin allows subject members to formed ballots without registering to ballot oregon providing impervious of residency. Military ballots marque up a tiny fraction of votes successful Wisconsin — astir 1,400 truthful acold for Tuesday’s election.

Brandtjen and the others are utilizing the incidental to reason that subject ballots should not beryllium counted unless predetermination officials tin amusement they complied with a authorities instrumentality requiring them to support lists of each eligible subject voters.

Brandtjen’s attorney, Erick Kaardal of the blimpish Thomas More Society, said authorities officials person handled elections successful a mode that is “conducive to ballot fraud.”

Will Attig, manager of the Union Veterans Council, expressed alarm astatine the effort to forestall counting subject ballots.

“These are work members defending our state that person the close to ballot and their means to ballot is by mail,” helium said. “We’ve got what to maine appears to beryllium an orchestrated program by predetermination deniers who bash not genuinely enactment our democracy.”