Posted on 11/04/2022 6:08:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Republican politicians and activists have long expressed concerns about absentee voting after showing that the current process for requesting and verifying absentee ballots is ripe for abuse and fraud.
One election official in Milwaukee was fired and may face criminal charges for showing how easy it is to obtain absentee ballots fraudulently.
Kimberly Zapata, the deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, requested absentee ballots that members of the military use to vote and sent them to Republican Elections Committee chairwoman Janel Brandtjen.
Zapata requested the ballots using the names of servicemembers who do not exist.
The Elections Commission Director believes that Zapata was trying to show that absentee ballots can be requested without photo identification or even cross-referencing the person with a voter registration database.
She was fired by Milwaukee’s Democrat mayor, Cavalier Johnson.
District Attorney John Chisholm said that charges against Zapata will be filed ‘in the coming days’.
The Citizen Free Press Reports–
A Milwaukee election official could face criminal charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting absentee ballots reserved for members of the military and sending them to a Republican lawmaker to prove how easy it is to defraud the Wisconsin election system.
Milwaukee Election Commission deputy director Kimberly Zapata, 44, of South Milwaukee, was fired by Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson this week after Johnson discovered she had requested the ballots.
Johnson said Zapata said she committed the crime to show voter fraud was possible.
“This has every appearance of being an egregious and blatant violation of trust,” Johnson said. “Election integrity is absolutely integral. It’s absolutely essential.” Milwaukee County prosecutors are considering charging Zapata with malfeasance in office, a felony, and illegally requesting a ballot, a misdemeanor.
District Attorney John Chisholm said in a statement his office is reviewing the election fraud allegations and that prosecutors “expect charges to be filed in the coming days.”
Hope she gets the book thrown at her.
WHy?.....................
If anyone was to be fired, perhaps it should’ve been whoever complied with the request. That person should’ve known it was illegal.
Regardless of motive, she committed fraud!
btt
She should be given a medal, not get the book thrown at her.
Hope they ALL get the book thrown @ em!
Read it again. She requested ballots under fake names to expose a huge flaw in the system. She did not intend to vote with these. This is equivalent to “breaking in” to a warehouse by opening an unlocked door marked “do not enter” to show the boss how the inventory can be stolen. She better have a paper trail of attempts to alert within the system to protect her.
This is just like Europe in the 20th century. Get arrested for exposing the corruption. Something has to be done about this.
Read the story. She was demonstrating how the Dem’s do their fraud. She flipped to the Republican side to help.
Either you didn’t read the story or you are a Democrat or.......
Criminally charging whistleblowers: the democrat plan for maintaining public confidence in the integrity of the election system.
Her intentions were laudable, but she’s given a vindictive, corrupt state an opportunity to really kick her behind.
Maybe they’ll inadvertently set a precedence that can be used against real future cases of fraud.
Reading comprehension problem?
She’s a hero and a patriot. Great courage.
Did James O’Keefe commit election fraud in 2012 by going to Eric Holder’s election polling place and requesting his ballot? He didn’t accept it, he just gave the name “Eric Holder.” They tried to give him a ballot under that name.
Oops. Very bad move. Not a good example of critical thinking.
A great example of why mail-in ballots are a horrible idea and are ripe for fraud. There’s just too many ways that you can ‘hack the system’. Here, all it takes is a person to not cross check the data and you have a massive fraud hole.
This person should receive a medal, not prosecution.
They are perfectly fine with the fraud and they would never fire or prosecute for that.
What sends them into a white hot rage is exposing the fraud. You can lie all you want, telling the truth turns you into a lightning rod.
That’s what she CLAIMED she was doing — after she was caught. I think it is just as likely that she was trying to frame the GOP official who has been leading the investigation into voter fraud.
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