Election integrity remains one of the TOP THREE issues in the current election cycle. Tens of millions of voters throughout the United States feel cheated from the slimy tactics used during the 2020 election. Several states conducted extensive investigations and found enough evidence of bad behavior to justify these concerns.

Here in Wisconsin, the non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau conducted a lengthy study and found the following:

• Issues with “how they identify potential duplicate voter registration records in WisVote”
• WEC failed to “establish a schedule for regularly obtaining each type of data available from ERIC and a plan for acting on these data”
• “The Legislature could consider modifying statutes to require WEC to regularly obtain ERIC data and use them to improve the accuracy and completeness of WisVote.”
• “Section 6.87 (2), Wis. Stats., requires a certificate to include the address and signature of the individual who cast the ballot, and it requires a witness to write his or her printed name, address, and signature on the certificate.”
• “Wis. Stats., indicates that notwithstanding s. 5.01 (1), Wis. Stats., the statutory provisions that require certificates to have witness addresses are mandatory, and the ballots accompanying certificates that are missing this information shall not be counted.”
• “Section 6.84 (2), Wis. Stats., similarly indicates that ballots accompanying certificates without voter or witness signatures shall not be counted during a recount.”
• WEC violated the state laws listed above when “In October 2016, WEC approved written guidance indicating that municipal clerks must take action to correct errors in the witness addresses on certificates.”
• WEC violated the state laws listed above when “In March 2020, WEC’s staff issued written guidance indicating that municipal clerks can allow individuals to return absentee ballots to drop boxes that are secure, monitored, and emptied regularly, or return the ballots through mail slots at municipal facilities and book return slots at municipal libraries, as long as clerks collected such ballots daily. In July 2020, WEC’s staff issued written guidance indicating that alternate sites for requesting, voting, and returning absentee ballots could be established according to the statutory requirements.”
• WEC violated state law when “In March 2020, WEC provided guidance to municipal clerks indicating that indefinitely confined designations are determined by individuals and are based on their circumstances, do not require permanent or total inability to travel outside of the home, and should not be used in order to avoid providing photo identification for voting.”
• “Statutes require municipal clerks to notify WEC’s administrator if they adopt and purchase a new or different type of electronic voting equipment. When municipalities rent equipment, such as to count absentee ballots at central count locations during elections at which many individuals are expected to vote, statutes do not require clerks to notify WEC’s administrator.” Are nefarious clerks skirting the laws?
• “The Legislature could consider modifying statutes to explicitly require materials related to the pre-election tests of electronic voting equipment to be retained for 22 months after a federal election. Doing so would ensure that these pre-election test materials, which indicate whether electronic voting equipment counted ballots accurately, are retained for the same period of time as other election-related materials such as ballots and applications for absentee ballots.”
• “The Legislature could consider modifying statutes to require WEC to conduct risk-limiting post-election audits. Such audits are intended to determine voter intent and determine the validity of the election results, which may be preferable to the current audits that confirm whether the equipment counted ballots according to how it was programmed. As noted, one type of equipment was programmed in such a way that it counted ballot creases as votes in some counties during the November 2020 General Election.”
• “Currently, statutes do not require WEC to report any information to the Legislature about the considerable number of election-related concerns that it receives from individuals. The Legislature could consider modifying statutes to require WEC to report to it certain information about election-related concerns every six months. Such information could include the number of election-related concerns that individuals had provided to WEC, the types of issues addressed in these concerns, and how WEC’s staff addressed these concerns.”

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman was then hired by the state to conduct an even broader investigation and found the following:

• “The Center for Tech and Civic Life’s $8,800,000 Zuckerberg Plan Grant with the Cities of Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha and Green Bay (the Zuckerberg 5 Cities) Facially Violates Wisconsin Law Prohibiting Election Bribery.”
• “The Motive for These Grants Was Impermissible and Partisan Get Out the Vote Efforts (GOTV).”
• “Government Oversight Has Been Obstructed by Governmental and Outside Corporate Collusion.”
• “Corporate Legal Defense to Facilitate Obstruction Might Violate the Wisconsin Ethics Code.”
• “Wisconsin Election Officials’ Widespread Use of Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes Facially Violated Wisconsin Law.”
• “The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Unlawfully Directed Clerks to Violate Rules Protecting Nursing Home Residents, Resulting in a 100% Voting Rate in Many Nursing Homes in 2020, Including Many Ineligible Voters.”
• “WEC Also Unlawfully Encouraged Evasion of Ballot Security Measures Related to “Indefinitely Confined” Voters at the Behest of Outside Corporations.”
• “Wards Under Guardianship Orders (and Legally Prohibited from Voting) Voted Unimpeded by Wisconsin’s Election Officials as They Are Not Recorded in the WisVote Voter Database, Even Though the Circuit Courts Have This Information.”
• “Non-citizens Voted Unimpeded by Wisconsin’s Election Officials as They Are Not Recorded in the WisVote Voter Database, Even Though Wisconsin Law Requires Citizenship to Vote.”
• “Milwaukee, Madison, Racine, Kenosha, and Green Bay Election Officials May Have Violated the Federal and Wisconsin Equal Protection Clauses by Not Treating All Voters Equal in the Same Election.”

As a result of these investigations, Wisconsin Republicans passed the following reforms:

• cleaning and maintaining accurate voter rolls
• ensuring legislative oversight of WEC and state agencies involved in elections
• closing voter ID loopholes
• securing ballot chain of custody
• reforming indefinitely confined status
• enacting strong penalties for violating election law
• ensuring efficient and timely ballot access on Election Day
• accountability for those who fail to follow election laws
• conducting frequent and comprehensive audits
• strengthening reporting requirements to improve public transparency
• ensuring timely review of election complaints

Unfortunately, Democrats led by Governor Tony Evers are standing in the way of any real progress to reform our broken election system. Evers has vetoed all of the meaningful legislation that would have corrected many problems.

It is obvious that Evers is not interested in serving voters of this state. I cannot say for certain why that is but my experience suggests that he is consumed with power and using any means necessary to retain it even if it means ignoring our election laws. This leaves us with a few choices:

1. You can simply give up and let Tony Evers reign of terror in Wisconsin continue. You can throw your hands in the air, stay home on election day, ignore the requests for help from your Republican friends who are trying to defeat Evers, and just give up. Like Nero, simply go ahead and play your fiddle while Rome burns.
2. You can fight back by helping to ensure we cast more votes for our Republican candidates than ever before in Wisconsin’s history. You can grab some literature and go door-to-door in your neighborhood to help get the word out. You can grab your phone and call 20 people and make sure they also take part in electing the right people. You can donate to Republican candidates who can use that money to pay for the gas they need to travel the state and win.

Make no mistake: Democrats are going to cheat again so we MUST get every law-abiding voter to the polls and defeat them with honor and integrity. We MUST flood every election with good people in order to drown out the evil cheaters. Good will triumph over evil but ONLY if we "fight a good fight."

Recall the wise words of Sir Edmund Burke during the period of our American Revolution:

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Choose wisely and God bless.