Posted on 03/27/2024 6:27:09 AM PDT by Mr.Unique
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A jury found former Milwaukee election official Kimberly Zapata guilty on all four counts Wednesday after a three-day trial involving election fraud.
She faced three misdemeanors for election fraud and a felony misconduct charge in public office.
The 47-year-old woman admitted to illegally requesting absentee ballots for non-existent military voters in October of 2022 when she served as deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission.
During closing arguments on Wednesday morning, the state told the jury not to focus on Zapata's intentions, arguing that breaking the law is still a crime. Prosecutor Matthew Westphal said Zapata was harming the system she was supposed to protect in 2022.
"What did she tell us? She told us that she fabricated three individuals for the purpose of having ballots issued, that she did this on her laptop, in a computer issued by the city, and that she did this using the WisVote system to gain the address that she had the ballot sent to," Westphal told the jury.
Zapata's attorney, Daniel Adams, said she was a whistleblower--highlighting loopholes in the Wisconsin electoral system.
"Kim Zapata's acts were driven by stress; they were not perfect in any way," he said. "What she did was act to illuminate a gap between the American ideal of a perfect democracy and the facts as they are, which is there is a gap, a flaw, in Wisconsin's electoral system. That's it."
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What was this Benford analysis on? What digits?
Took a chance and looked her up for you guys.
But you had hope and that's all that's important.
WAPO has an interesting take: Former Milwaukee election official convicted of absentee ballot fraud
Kimberly Zapata, the city’s former deputy elections director, was tried in an unusual case that pitted a self-proclaimed whistleblower against election conspiracy theorists
LOL
I think Zapata was attempting to PROVE there was a serious problem.
Zapata stated that “she went to the MyVote website and fabricated three individuals who did not exist,” the complaint says.
“Zapata did this because she wanted to make a point that there is fraud in existence. She stated that it is not the conspiracy theories out there, but she wanted to bring the actual true fraud out. Zapata stated that she felt overwhelmed due to the threats of violence the Election Commission was receiving, in addition to the constant daily harassment and accusations of lying and hiding things. She stated she wanted the truth to come out so that they could focus on the actual problems.”
I think Zapata was attempting to PROVE there was a serious problem.
Meh. In her mind, the serious problem was military absentee votes.
She considers early counting, late counting, lack of ID, lack of security protocols (physical & cyber), chain of custody concerns, etc., to be conspiracy theories.
It’s a Benford analysis of the precinct returns for Milwaukee. The dataset came directly from the Wisconsin state election files in “csv” format. I wrote a short Python program to analyze the precinct returns, and create an output “csv” file with the plottable data. Then imported to MS/Excel for the charts.
Interestingly, Madison’s data was consistent with the Benford standard, as well as Superior, WI, and Green Bay. That’s a strong indication that there should have been a forensic analysis of the votes, not just a recount.
Got it. What numeric value were you looking at? Precinct total vote counts?
Yes, precinct totals by candidate.
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