Fact Check

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

No. Wisconsin law allows a person who is “indefinitely confined because of age, physical illness or infirmity or is disabled for an indefinite period” to become a permanent absentee voter “by signing a statement to that effect.” This law has been on the books for more than 30 years. Being a

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

Absolutely not. Twenty-eight reporting units using Dominion systems were randomly selected after the election and audited for the Presidential contest, and all the audits confirmed that the hand-counted paper ballots exactly matched the electronic results from the machines. In the 15 Wisconsin

Yes and yes. Dominion voting systems are approved for use in Wisconsin, specifically the Dominion Voting ImageCast Evolution (ICE). Dominion the second largest voting equipment vendor in the state, and their systems are used in all or parts of these counties: Adams, Crawford, Door, Fond du Lac

The city of Milwaukee is one of 39 municipalities in Wisconsin which count their voters’ absentee ballots at a central location. This is permitted by state law. Because several municipalities could not finish processing their absentee ballots by the time the polls closed at 8 p.m. on Election Day

Some observers at the recounts held in Dane and Milwaukee counties have complained that they were unable to get close enough to the workers to see everything they were doing, and for that reason, those ballots should not be counted. State law that governs recounts allows candidates and their

The initials some recount observers saw on ballots are municipal clerk’s employees, not voters. The clerk or deputy clerk is required to initial the absentee ballot before issuing it to the voter, so it is natural that many of them all have the same set of initials. Unfortunately, recount observers

No, Wisconsin’s Badger Books epollbook system is not connected to the internet. The Wisconsin Elections Commission, which created the software for Badger Books, designed the system with cybersecurity as a top priority. Badger Books are an electronic poll book system available to Wisconsin’s