Wisconsin Election in Jeopardy? Concerned Clerk Sounds Alarm on Absentee Ballot Vulnerabilities
A Wisconsin election clerk has come forward with a chilling warning about major vulnerabilities in the state’s absentee ballot system, raising urgent concerns about election integrity just weeks before a crucial Supreme Court election.
Fearing retaliation and job loss, the clerk remains anonymous but reached out to The Gateway Pundit in a desperate plea to expose a serious threat to election security.
According to this whistleblower, a primary election glitch involving the state’s electronic voter registration system, Badger Books, could serve as a preview of potential fraud in the upcoming election.
“We had a glitch with Badger Books on Tuesday, February 18, that really got me thinking and worried to the hilt. I am happy to go into great detail. It is not nuanced and it all falls on clerks and the trustworthiness of our larger areas–Milwaukee and Dane Counties,” the clerk said.
On February 18, Badger Books reportedly malfunctioned by checking in absentee ballots that had never been returned, creating an erroneous voter turnout rate of up to 27% in some townships.
The whistleblower describes a deeply flawed absentee ballot process that appears ripe for abuse. Here’s how it works:
- A voter requests an absentee ballot online or by calling their clerk. The request is processed through BadgerBooks, and the clerk prints labels for the ballot.
- The ballot is mailed to the voter, recorded as sent, and then recorded again when returned.
- However, there is nothing stopping election officials from printing duplicate ballot labels, tracking unreturned ballots, and fabricating votes with forged signatures and fake witnesses.
“There is no signature verification, no ID matching an address, and nothing preventing someone from printing extra labels and submitting fraudulent ballots.” the clerk warns.
During the February 18 primary, Badger Books experienced a major barcode glitch that automatically checked in ballots that had never actually been returned. The clerk provided alarming statistics:
- In one township, 5 absentee ballots were incorrectly marked as received, despite only 40 ballots being sent out—an error rate of 12.5%.
- In another township, 3 ballots were falsely recorded as received out of 32 mailed—an error rate of 9.4%.
- In both townships, when calculated against actual returned ballots, the error rates skyrocketed to 26.3% and 27.3%, respectively.
The clerk, who has been working elections for years, insists that irregularities have been occurring since at least 2018. With the April election just around the corner, the clerk believes the issue is more critical than ever.
More from the whistleblower:
Badger Books reads the barcodes on absentee ballots. For the November 5, 2024 election, they lengthened the barcode to 9 or 10 digits. For the February 18, 2025 primary, they were supposed to shorten it back down to the standard 8 digits.
HOWEVER, someone in IT shortened it to 7 digits. So when we scanned in an absentee ballot, it picked up only the first 7 digits of the barcode instead of all 8.
In one of my townships, I had five absentee ballots checked in that were never returned in the mail. In another one of my townships, there were three. Fortunately, one was received later that day, reducing the total to two.
The point is this: I had sent out 40 absentee ballots in the township that had five recorded as returned in the system. That is a 12.5% error rate for total ballots mailed out. I only had 19 returned, which turned into a 26.3% error rate.
In the other district, I had three marked as returned. I only mailed out 32, resulting in a 9.4% error rate. I only had 11 come back in the mail, leading to an error rate of 27.3%.
That was just two small townships. Imagine the Supreme Court election in 31 days and a glitch like that happening. A 27% error rate in Milwaukee or Madison could allow poll workers to fill in ballots and run them through the machines so that the BadgerBooks number matches the tabulator machine.
I am NOT saying that is happening, but it is something that could happen.
According to Scott Pressler, George Soros is attempting to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court to enable liberals to gerrymander the state’s congressional maps—a move that could help Democrats take control of the House in 2026.
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The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the Wisconsin Elections Commission for comments.
