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The number of returned military absentee ballots did in fact decrease between the 2020 and 2022 General Elections. However, this decrease aligns with longstanding trends and follows a pattern dating to at least 2016. Determining the number of military members who voted absentee in an election is...

No. Some people have circulated a spreadsheet showing multiple people at the same street address and claiming that, “thousands voted from the same address,” to imply fraudulent activity. Several different locations are mentioned but the two most commonly identified places are 1411 Ellis Avenue in...

Absolutely not. The idea of “ghost voters” or "phantom voters" comes from a conspiracy theory that the election was stolen by adding votes from “ghost voters” who were then deleted from the voter list so there would be no evidence of them. The theory assumes unknown entities somehow hacked both the...

Yes, information security professionals at the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) and state cybersecurity experts from multiple agencies have reviewed claims in the video and have found them to be false. There is no evidence in this video, or anywhere else, that anyone hacked into any Wisconsin...

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in this or any other Wisconsin election. Wisconsin has many systems in place to deter and detect illegal voting, but there will always be small amounts of voter fraud in any election. The Wisconsin Elections Commission is dedicated to working with local...

No. Only ballots received by the clerk by 8 p.m. on Election Day were counted. UPDATE: The US Postal Service Inspector General issued a report on December 14, 2020 (see attached below). The report concluded: The USPS OIG investigation determined all allegations against [REDACTED] were false. Based...

No. News media errors in reporting Wisconsin’s unofficial results did not affect the outcome of the election. Several people contacted the WEC about discrepancies they may have seen in unofficial results on media websites or TV broadcasts on Election Night. They believe that these reporting errors...

There have been unfounded allegations that the WEC violated the law by not removing approximately 232,000 voters from the registration list because they may have moved. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in April 2021 that Wisconsin law did not direct the Wisconsin Elections Commission to not remove...

No. One of the stranger claims after the election was that legitimate ballots had been specially encoded by one of the political parties so any illegitimate ballots could be rejected. Wisconsin county clerks are responsible for printing ballots which are distributed to municipal clerks. The secrecy...

Absolutely not. In 2010, many Wisconsin clerks started using a new combined application/certificate for absentee ballots cast in their offices. They did this to reduce paperwork in response to more and more voters casting absentee ballots in the clerk’s office. Prior to 2010, people voting absentee...