Sheriff Wants Wisconsin Absentee Ballot Request Process Halted Due to Alleged Vulnerabilities to Fraud

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.”

Indefinite confinement in one’s residence due to health concerns is a valid reason to receive an absentee ballot under Wisconsin law.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, to test the vulnerability of the MyVote system, one complainant had a second party request an absentee ballot for him. The second party requested that the ballot be sent to the second party’s address. The second party received the complainant’s ballot in the mail.

Election officials count absentee ballots in Milwaukee, Wis. on Nov. 4, 2020. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Another complainant, Harry Wait, a business consultant from the Racine area, explained the vulnerability to The Epoch Times.

Wait said when a person googles into myvote.wi.gov, he can then enter in a person’s name and date of birth and immediately the person’s address pops up.

He said a person’s date of birth is easily obtainable from marketing companies that

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