Benford Analyis, Milwaukee
Posted on 03/27/2024 6:27:09 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A jury found former Milwaukee election official Kimberly Zapata guilty on all four counts Wednesday after a three-day trial involving election fraud.
She faced three misdemeanors for election fraud and a felony misconduct charge in public office.
The 47-year-old woman admitted to illegally requesting absentee ballots for non-existent military voters in October of 2022 when she served as deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission.
During closing arguments on Wednesday morning, the state told the jury not to focus on Zapata's intentions, arguing that breaking the law is still a crime. Prosecutor Matthew Westphal said Zapata was harming the system she was supposed to protect in 2022.
"What did she tell us? She told us that she fabricated three individuals for the purpose of having ballots issued, that she did this on her laptop, in a computer issued by the city, and that she did this using the WisVote system to gain the address that she had the ballot sent to," Westphal told the jury.
Zapata's attorney, Daniel Adams, said she was a whistleblower--highlighting loopholes in the Wisconsin electoral system.
"Kim Zapata's acts were driven by stress; they were not perfect in any way," he said. "What she did was act to illuminate a gap between the American ideal of a perfect democracy and the facts as they are, which is there is a gap, a flaw, in Wisconsin's electoral system. That's it."
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Viva Zapata! Sounds like another bandita!
“Kim Zapata’s acts were driven by stress; they were not perfect in any way,” he said. “What she did was act to illuminate a gap between the American ideal of a perfect democracy and the facts as they are, which is there is a gap, a flaw, in Wisconsin’s electoral system. That’s it.”
Horse sh!t. Lock her up.
Exactly. I didn’t think fraud happened at all when it came to elections. I don’t see anybody being prosecuted for the truckload of ballots being brought into PA.
Step 1) Lock her up because what she did was wrong.
Step 2) Investigate the problem that stressed her out, chase down the issue that she was blowing a whistle about, fix the election system to stop future fraud.
But, of course, only Step 1 will be followed. We now have a society in which whistleblowers are locked up and nothing gets fixed.
The media will continue to pretend that every voter fraud case is isolated and no two of them are connected. Trying to eliminate fraud is turning into a game of whack-a-mole.
Prosecutor Matthew Westphal said Zapata harmed the system she was paid to protect. Her own words:
<><>She told us in 2022 that she fabricated the names of three individuals
<><>her plan was to have fake ballots issued,
<><>she did this on her laptop, a tax-paid computer issued by the city,
<><>she did this using the WisVote system to gain the address.
<><>that she calculatedly had the ballots sent.
diversion to keep from finding out the true method of voter fraud
Probably that, too......these powermongers are capable of anything.
The damage from election fraud is irreparable. It should be punished by DEATH.
I’d give her a pass to learn who instructed her to take such actions.
This it’s clear why there’s so much ‘smoke’ obscuring facts and distracting observers of such cases.
Lol! Exactly-
Ditto for 2024.
The 3rd world - with tamper-proof voter ID cards have cleaner elections than the U.S.
Yup...all voting should be in person with ID. No exceptions.
That was the point she was trying to make as a whistleblower.
I've been told that my own self.
Understand that if fraud can be done this easily, it WILL be done. And on a wide scale.
Yep, and these are just tests.
Took a chance and looked her up for you guys.
There is no chance she can be rehabilitated.
Guilty as hell....
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