Jury finds former Milwaukee election official guilty of obtaining fake absentee ballots

[Nevilledog]

https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-ballot-fraud-trump-trial-c6b568d58e2ad7121566c3734ab5d851

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A jury found a former Milwaukee election official accused of obtaining fake absentee ballots guilty Wednesday of misconduct in office and fraud, rejecting her arguments that she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the state’s election system.

Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata in November 2022 with one felony count of misconduct in public office and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. The jury found her guilty in Milwaukee County Circuit Court on all four counts after starting deliberations Wednesday morning.

Zapata faces up to five years behind bars when she’s sentenced on May 2.

Zapata was serving as deputy director at the Milwaukee Election Commission in October 2022 when she used her work-issued laptop to obtain three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers, according to a criminal complaint. She sent the ballots to Republican state Rep. Janel Brandtjen, an election conspiracy theorist, two weeks before the state’s gubernatorial and legislative elections.

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Edit to take out Republican in the title. The person who received the ballots was Republican.

[BaronChocula]

1. Cue Louie from Casablanca n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Gateway Pundit (no surprise) called her "Leading Wisconsin Democrat"

Zapata is deputy director of the City Electoral Commission in Milwaukee. An important position, officially neutral, but hardly a Party leader and not statewide.

Leading Wisconsin Democrat Kimberly Zapata Found Guilty on All Counts Against of Her in Voter Fraud Scheme Involving Military Ballots
The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 20, 2024 | Jim Hoft
In November 2022, Rep. Janel Brandtjen, then Chair of the Assembly on Campaigns and Elections, sent out an election fraud alert. Rep. Brandtjen received three authentic military ballots to her home addressed to “Holly,” a woman who has never lived there. Brantjen believed this was part of a scheme to steal votes in Wisconsin. The Gateway Pundit has reported extensively on this 2020 voter fraud scheme in several battleground states where military ballots shockingly went almost entirely to Joe Biden. We posted evidence that this occurred in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia. Later that week Wisconsin radio host Dan O’Donnell broke...

[malaise]

3. Get thee to the greatest page

The real thieves are the ReTHUGs

[CousinIT]

4. Isn't it INTERESTINK...

…that when fraud is committed, it’s always Republicans doing it? Methinks they doth PROJECT too much.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. I think the Republican in the thread title is Brandtjen. I can't find any party affiliation for Zapata

Brandtjen, the Republican, was not on trial.

[orthoclad]

6. They're not counting on the popular vote

They're going with the vote counters.