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No, that is incorrect. It is based on a misunderstanding of the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s decision to approve a new version of a voting system. Misinformation about upgrades to Dominion Voting Systems in Wisconsin came from Mike Lindell’s “Cyber Symposium” in August 2021. A speaker at the

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

The number of active registered voters fluctuates as people register or as they are moved from the active list to the inactive list by their municipal clerks, ranging between 3.4 million to 3.7 million. As of August 2021, there are 3.5 million active registered voters. Only active registered voters

No. Wisconsin State Statute 7.10 explicitly gives the responsibility of preparing, printing, and distributing ballots to county clerks, based on templates developed and approved by the Wisconsin Elections Commission for each election cycle. Ballot templates are approved by the Commission at a public

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