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One of the states with huge fraud in 2020. Those reprobates have yet to s Justice.
And the head of the department was just fired by the Milwaukee mayor.
A jury found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty Wednesday of misconduct in office and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.
Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata in November 2022 with one felony count of misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. The jury found her guilty in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on all four counts after starting deliberations Wednesday morning.
Zapata faces up to five years behind bars when she’s sentenced on May 2.
Zapata was serving as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.
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And see: Milwaukee election leader ousted 6 months before election in presidential swing state
And the head of the department was just fired by the Milwaukee mayor.
A jury found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty Wednesday of misconduct in office and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.
Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata in November 2022 with one felony count of misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. The jury found her guilty in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on all four counts after starting deliberations Wednesday morning.
Zapata faces up to five years behind bars when she’s sentenced on May 2.
Zapata was serving as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.
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Jury finds former Milwaukee election official guilty of obtaining fake absentee ballots
Kimberly Zapata, who argued that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system, faces up to five years in prison when she's sentenced in May.
www.nbcnews.com
And see: Milwaukee election leader ousted 6 months before election in presidential swing state