Wait, whose team has been focused on fraud allegations surrounding the 2020 election, said he was prepared to “be charged with exposing these voting vulnerabilities.” He has explained his actions in several media interviews in recent days. “If that’s what it takes to stop fraud in our elections so we can have real, safe, secure elections, yes, I’m going to go behind bars,” Waite told CNN’s WISN 12 News in Milwaukee. Submitting false information to obtain an absentee ballot and making false statements to election officials are crimes under Wisconsin law. Democrats on the Wisconsin Board of Elections asked the board for criminal impeachment during a special meeting Thursday night. Ann Jacobs, a Democratic member of the committee, said she was “outraged” that Wait “thinks this is cute, when what he’s doing is committing crimes and bragging about it in an attempt to undermine our election system.” Don Millis, the committee’s Republican chairman, said he had “no problem” with criminal charges, but first he would like more details. In a statement earlier Thursday, the commission said there was “no indication of any vulnerability” in MyVote, the state’s online election portal. Its members agreed to notify voters who may have been affected by the hack, and the commission issued instructions to local election officials to watch for possible fraud in absentee applications. The Wisconsin primary is Aug. 9, with high-profile races for governor and U.S. Senate on the ballot.
