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According to Wisconsin regulations, each absentee ballot must be accompanied by a certificate signed by the witness and the witness must write their address.
The law states: “If the address of the witness is missing from the certificate, the votes cannot be counted.”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission appears to have ignored the law and in October formally instructed state personnel and elections officials to find missing addresses on ballots mailed through the voter registry or other “reliable information.”
Gableman said: “This is not required by law at all.” On November 3, Gableman himself worked as a counting supervisor in Milwaukee and witnessed the addresses written in red ink.
He told The Epoch Times: “The law stipulates that if the address of the witness is missing below the witness’s signature, it is a damaged or invalid ballot.”
Obviously, the staff filled in a large number of missing addresses with red ink. The Epoch Times interviewed four counting supervisors, who saw red ink on the absentee ballot in Milwaukee on Election Day.
Wisconsin State Elections Commission spokesman Reid Magney told The Epoch Times in an email that instructions for completing the address were approved by the commission in 2016.
“The directive went into effect in 11 state elections, including the 2016 presidential election and the counting of votes. So far, no one has objected,” Magni said. “The law requires that the address of a witness be required to receive certificates and count. Ballot, it does not stipulate who fills the address.”
Logan Churchwell, spokesperson for the Public Interest Legal Foundation, said: “Wisconsin law appears to have left a loophole for administrative regulations in modifying the certificates of witnesses lacking address information.”
Ardis Cerny also served as a counting supervisor in Milwaukee on November 3. He estimated that during the counting of votes in a neighborhood, he saw about 40 ballots whose addresses of witnesses were written in red ink. There are 340 constituencies in Milwaukee.
“Some districts are worse than others. Friends of mine who work elsewhere say the number of people I see is greater than that,” Saierny said.
Cerny and other Milwaukee supervisors told The Epoch Times that their movements on the counting floor were strictly restricted and that it was difficult to monitor the count. Cerny estimates that of 200 counting tables in Milwaukee, the supervisor can only come close to about 20.
Annette Kuglitsch, who works as a supervisor at the same vote counting center, said she observed red ink on ballots at least 10 times during the “hours” of counting 136 constituencies. .
Hours earlier, Kuglich and Cerny watched the vote counting at another counting center in Wauwatosa. An election official confirmed that staff members were instructed to fill in the missing addresses in red ink. When asked how to find the address, the official said they could use “Google” or other methods.
Debra Morin spent most of November 3 as a supervisor in Milwaukee. She told The Epoch Times that she observed red ink on a small number of ballots, some of which only included city and state information.
The Trump campaign requested a recount in Wisconsin. Once the state confirms the election results, the recount is likely to begin in late November.
As of November 10, former Vice President Biden led President Trump with just 20,540 votes in Wisconsin.
In general, it is believed that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to vote by mail. Wisconsin did not report the percentage of voters who used mail-in ballots. According to data from the US Election Project, in the 20 states that report on party relations, Democrats voted by mail, 7 million more than Republicans.
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