Explore a sampling of recent proven instances of election fraud from across the country. The database is intended to demonstrate the vulnerabilities in the election system and the many ways in which fraud is committed.

April 29, 2024 - In 2022, the Wisconsin elections commission voted to fine Bernegger a dollar for every claim of voter fraud the bipartisan group found to be frivolous in nature; his penalties amounted to $2,403.

May 3, 2024 - Brandtjen, a former chair of the ... about Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election results. Former Republican President Donald Trump, who continues to falsely claim his loss to President Joe Biden was due to election fraud, promoted many false claims made to Brandtjen’s committee. She was one of a small group of Republican lawmakers who called for the 2020 results to be decertified, which experts have said is legally impossible. · An April survey of registered voters by the Marquette ...

March 30, 2024 - I can attest that voter ID, the statewide voter registration list and other changes have eliminated the ability to commit widespread election fraud.

March 9, 2023 - Wisconsin Watch analyzed every Wisconsin election fraud case since 2012, the most comprehensive analysis of statewide voter fraud cases.

September 6, 2023 - In Wisconsin, recounts, a nonpartisan audit and a conservative law firm’s report have all confirmed that Joe Biden won the state and concluded there was no widespread fraud. Yet false claims of election-related malfeasance have persisted — alongside accusations that Wolfe mishandled the ...

March 20, 2024 - Milwaukee, home to the largest number of Democrats in Wisconsin, has been a target for complaints from former President Donald Trump and his supporters, who made unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud to attack Biden’s 2020 victory.

March 21, 2024 - Kimberly Zapata, the city’s former deputy elections director, was tried in an unusual case that pitted a self-proclaimed whistleblower against election conspiracy theorists.

March 21, 2024 - The jury rejected the official's characterization of her actions surrounding the 2022 elections as an attempt to blow the whistle on election administration issues.

March 19, 2024 - Wisconsin’s election and voting laws have been in the spotlight since Biden’s 2020 victory, which came under attack from former President Donald Trump and his supporters who made unsubstantiated claims of widespread voter fraud. Milwaukee, home to the largest number of Democrats in Wisconsin, ...

September 6, 2023 - (AP) — The number of convicted ... to a new report from the state elections commission. The report is further evidence that there has been no widespread voter fraud in the state, despite false claims to the contrary that former President Donald Trump and his supporters have ...

January 13, 2024 - Republicans opposed the use of ... of voter fraud and was used to bolster Democratic turnout. Racine officials, the Democratic National Committee and the Milwaukee-based voting advocacy group Black Leaders Organizing for Communities refuted those claims and defended the legality of the van, saying there was no specific prohibition against it. The lawsuit over the mobile voting van is one of several in battleground Wisconsin that could ...

July 31, 2023 - The future of Meagan Wolfe, the state’s top election administrator, is uncertain as her reappointment has turned into a political showdown with Republicans

October 9, 2022 - Among Kaardal’s most passionate ... election fraud at nursing homes. During the pandemic, Kaardal alleges, an unknown number of cognitively impaired people ruled incompetent to vote under court-ordered guardianships somehow voted, perhaps with illegal assistance. He believes the voter rolls are not being updated to accurately reflect the court orders. Kaardal brought lawsuits against 13 probate administrators across Wisconsin to force the ...

July 28, 2022 - A Wisconsin judge says that a Republican-ordered, taxpayer-funded investigation into the 2020 election found “absolutely no evidence of election fraud,” but did reveal contempt for the state’s open records law by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and a former state Supreme Court justice he hired.

September 2, 2022 - – The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) today announced that Harry E. Wait, 68, of Union Grove, Wis., has been charged with two counts of Election Fraud and two counts of Unauthorized Use of an Individual’s Personal Identifying Information in connection with his requesting absentee ...

June 15, 2022 - The Journal Sentinel reported that ... more than three dozen states have cited false claims of voter fraud as justification for pushing anti-voting measures. In American Oversight’s first lawsuit against the Wisconsin Assembly, the clerk of the Assembly, and Speaker Vos, we are ...

September 20, 2022 - Pursuant to the requirement contained in Wis. Stat. § 7.15(1)(g), the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) submits to the Wisconsin Legislature the following report of “suspected election fraud, irregularities or violations” based on information submitted to the WEC by municipal clerks.