“It’s not that there are no crimes committed by voters … but they’re just minuscule compared to the number of allegations.” “I would say the allegations are out of scale with the rate at which there are actual crimes committed by voters,” said University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Barry Burden, who runs the Elections Research Center. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, includes in an online election fraud database only 35 cases since 2012. The Wisconsin Watch analysis is the most comprehensive accounting of Wisconsin election fraud cases to date. The analysis, with data compiled by Court Data Technologies, also found Black Wisconsinites, most of them from Milwaukee County, are even more overrepresented in election fraud prosecutions than they are in the court system overall. The main cause is a voter’s probation status, a Wisconsin Watch analysis of every Wisconsin election fraud case since 2012 found. (Amena Saleh/Wisconsin Watch) Prosecutors charged just 192 people with election-related crimes since 2012, but more than half of the cases were related to felony probation status.Įlection fraud is exceptionally rare: Over the past decade in Wisconsin, it has been prosecuted fewer than 200 times, or about once for every 163,000 ballots cast.Īnd within that tiny universe, the most common reason for criminal charges is not people voting under dead people’s names, double voting or voter impersonation - the kinds of crimes election skeptics like former President Donald Trump claim happen on a large scale. More than half of those cases are for those with felony convictions who vote or register while still on probation. Election fraud is rare in Wisconsin, with fewer than 200 cases prosecuted over the past decade.
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