Schimel urged voters to “get our votes banked, make this too big to rig so we don’t have to worry that at 11:30 in Milwaukee, they’ll find bags of ballots that they forgot to put in the machines like they did in 2018 or 2024 when Eric Hovde was ahead all night and then all of a sudden Milwaukee County changed that.”
“I don’t think what happened, if there was fraud there, there’s no way for me to know that,” he said on WISN-AM Radio this week. “All I know is this: We need to turn our votes out. That’s the best insulation we have against any potential fraud, just get out people to the polls.”
In the Hovde case, both parties had warned in the run-up to the November election that Milwaukee absentee ballots would be reported late and cause a spike in Democratic votes because the city, the largest in the state, is heavily Democratic.
