This woman should be getting a medal, not losing her job. Radio host Dan O’Donnell tweeted out info on what happened: Kimberly Zapata, the deputy director of the City of Milwaukee Election Commission has just been fired for committing election fraud by obtaining fake military ballots and sending them to Assembly Elections Committee chairwoman Janel Brandtjen. On Monday, Brandtjen alerted law enforcement that someone had sent military ballots in the names of people who don’t exist to her home in what Brandtjen believed was an effort to alert her to how easy it is to commit vote fraud using military ballots.
Milwaukee Elections Commission Director Claire Woodall-Vogg says she believes that Zapata was attempting to point out that military ballots can be requested and sent out without a photo ID or even voter registration through the public http://MyVote.WI.Gov website.
The Milwaukee Journal reported that a Milwaukee election official could face criminal charges accusing her of fraudulently requesting absentee ballots reserved for members of the military and sending them to a Republican lawmaker known for embracing unfounded conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
Milwaukee Election Commission Deputy Director Kimberly Zapata, 45, of South Milwaukee was fired by Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson this week after Johnson discovered she had requested the ballots. Johnson said Zapata’s actions may have been to show voter fraud was possible.
“This has every appearance of being an egregious and blatant violation of trust,” Johnson said. “Election integrity is absolutely integral. It’s absolutely essential.”
Milwaukee County prosecutors are considering charging Zapata with malfeasance in office, a felony, and illegally requesting a ballot, a misdemeanor, a source told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
District Attorney John Chisholm said in a statement his office is reviewing the election fraud allegations and that prosecutors “expect charges to be filed in the coming days.”
Michael Maistelman, who is representing Zapata, declined to answer questions.
“We will litigate this in the courtroom, not the media,” said Maistelman, who often represents Democrats including Gov. Tony Evers.
Johnson held a news conference Thursday but left before reporters were finished asking questions about the matter.
The revelation five days before the Nov. 8 midterm election is potentially explosive at a time when Republicans have cast doubt on the security of absentee voting, and in Milwaukee in particular, ever since former President Donald Trump began falsely accusing Milwaukee election officials of rigging the 2020 election.
At Thursday’s news conference, Johnson said he learned Wednesday that Zapata “apparently sought fictitious military ballots” from a state elections website and directed them to Brandtjen.
Zapata’s actions may have been an effort to expose vulnerability in the state election system, he said.
“It does not matter to me that the alleged crime did not take place at work,” he said. “It does not matter to me that the city of Milwaukee ballots were not a part of this, nor does it matter that there was no attempt to vote illegally or tamper with any election results.”
So let’s get this straight, shall we… if we see a hole in the system that clearly leads to fraud, we can’t point it out, or we’ll get fired… is that what we call “democracy” these days?
The left doesn’t want any of this “looked into,” because this is the only way that they can win. By cheating with mail-in ballots. How on earth are we going to stop this mess?
This post originally appeared on WayneDupree.com.