The Sconi

Riddled with inconsistencies, Wisconsin’s voter registration list is an open door for voter fraud, 18 months of research by the Wisconsin Center for Election Justice (WCEJ) shows.  

“Every day we’re finding new stuff,” Peter Bernegger, data analyst with WCEJ, told The Sconi. “What they’ve done here is mastered the art of micro targeted election fraud.”

To arrive at its findings, WCEJ compared data provided by the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) and the United States Postal Service, notably data from its National Change of Address program.

In Kenosha County alone, the group found that 116,869 registrations of a total of 191,159 had a least one of 40 different kinds of errors, Bernegger said.

“Some lack a secondary address like an apartment number,” he said. “Others have an invalid primary address, and in some instances voters who had moved were ineligible to vote using their old address but still did.”

In one statewide discovery, WCEJ found a remarkable jump in the 2020 general election of those voting under permanently overseas status. The elections in 2008, 2012 and 2016 had 298, 610 and 778 respectively voting under this status. In 2020 the number jumped to 5,751, a 639% percent increase.

“Have to be bad actors behind this one,” Bernegger said. “We believe those peoples’ names were used without their knowledge.”

Duplicate registrations and what Bernegger calls WEC’s “abhorrent record keeping policies” also present a big problem.

“Due to WEC’s decisions at some point in time there will be more deceased people on the statewide voter list than people who live in Wisconsin,” he said.

Other irregularities discovered by WCEJ include: 11,342 unauthenticated ballots in Milwaukee; 40,783 ballots with no photo ID; and 32,110 “address unknown” absentee ballot request letters returned to WEC.

“Yet these people voted,” WCEJ says on its website. “And WEC did nothing about these even after learning of the 32,110 who moved. Need FOIA support to follow up with WEC which denies it.”

WCEJ plans to publish other statewide and county specific findings as well – there are at least 40,000 errors “of one sort or another” in Winnebago County, Bernegger said.

The group is looking for funding to hire lawyers to pursue the irregularities in court. Meanwhile, it’s turning the results of its investigations over to law enforcement.