A group claiming thousands of Wisconsin ballots had been “illegally trafficked” during the November 2020 election offered evidence to the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections on March 25.
The organization known as True the Vote (TTV) indicated that research showed individuals frequently visited illegal drop boxes before the November 3, 2020, general election. The evidence presented was cell phone GPS data, WISpolitics.com reports.
Research by TTV focused on cell phone signals primarily in Milwaukee County and partial data from the Green Bay and Racine areas.
The GPS data showed that from October 20, 2020, to November 3, 2020, 138 people made at least five visits to non-governmental agencies, including 3,588 trips to absentee ballot drop boxes.
According to a Wisconsin statute, an absentee ballot envelope must be mailed by the voter or delivered to the municipal clerk issuing the ballot.
TTV cyber expert Gregg Phillips noted that those numbers would mean an average of twenty-six visits per person. Ballot trafficking is soliciting absentee ballots, usually in exchange for money or another form of compensation.
At present, unattended or unauthorized drop boxes are illegal in Wisconsin, though the law is currently under review by the Wisconsin Supreme Court, The Epoch Times reports.
Voting in the Wisconsin state capitol of Madison has been subject to attacks from election critics. The group claimed that 17,251 votes had been illegally “harvested” during a Joe Biden campaign event.
Other claims about voting irregularities in Wisconsin include a report that more than 48,000 new voters failed to show identification before voting. If true, election clerks for Milwaukee and Dane counties are alleged to have provided illegal advice, according to WISpolitics.com.
During last week’s hearing, Engelbrecht also testified that the Wisconsin Election Commission (WEC) had failed to install video surveillance for drop boxes. That inaction came after they endorsed the idea during the summer of 2020.
In addition, Engelbrecht stated that the WEC locations of the drop boxes offered no written security guidelines, The Epoch Times reports.