The critical need to have Voter I.D. required and enforced nationally, was magnified locally in March at the trial of Wisconsin resident Harry Wait.
Wait was wrongfully charged with voter fraud and identity theft by Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, after successfully and transparently exposing massive vulnerabilities in the Wisconsin Elections Commissions’ MyVote website. The charges were brought to destroy Wait’s credibility by having him branded as a felon, and to keep the serious election problems he had uncovered hidden from the public.
The story began four years earlier on July 26th, 2022, when Wait was told by a trusted source that anyone using MyVote could request an absentee ballot for someone else, without a Voter I.D. If that was true, it would be a major security problem for Wisconsin’s voters and a violation of Wisconsin law.
To test the system, Wait logged onto MyVote and without I.D. or permission requested absentee ballots for Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason. Wait also requested roughly 10 additional ballots from people he had permission from, all to be sent to his Union Grove address.
Crucial to his obvious intent, Wait then notified Vos, Mason, and others, in an email sent at 3:13 A.M. on July 27th, what he had done and why he did it. Written in the subject line of the email was; The ease of harvesting election ballots online is nothing short of stunning.
Quotes from Wait’s email follow:
“Significant vulnerabilities at Request an Absentee Ballot (wi.gov) have been identified where anyone with a smartphone or computer can order an absentee ballot online in someone else’s name and have that absentee ballot sent to an address other than the registered voter. All you need is the date of birth.”
“Further, the I.D. of anyone requesting these absentee ballots is not requested or required.”
“Yesterday evening to prove how easily absentee ballots can be nefariously ordered, I went online and successfully ordered absentee ballots in Cory Mason and Robin Vos’s name to be shipped to my address.”
“I will of course return their absentee ballots should they arrive.”
The proof that a Voter I.D. was not required while using MyVote came when an absentee ballot in the name of Cory Mason arrived at Wait’s home. As promised, Wait returned it to the Racine County Sheriff’s Office, where Sheriff Chris Schmaling chose not to charge him. The ballot for Robin Vos never arrived, but the 10 additional ballots Wait requested did.
Wait’s trial was held on March 23rd and 24th, 2026, at the William L. McRenolds Law Enforcement Center in Racine. Prosecuting the case for Kaul were Assistant Attorney Generals Adrienne Blais and Leigh Neville-Neil, who deceitfully portrayed Wait as a thief.
Both Vos and Mason, who knew the truth about what Wait had found, and his intent, testified against him. Vos said that he was “frustrated” that Wait tried to steal his vote, and that he should have called for Wait’s prosecution. Mason said that he was “upset” by what Wait had done, and called it “very concerning.”
When the trial was over, even though Judge Daniel Johnson had instructed the jury to use their judgement and truth to reach their verdict, Wait was found guilty of two counts of voter fraud and one count of identity theft. Then, at 11:51 P.M. on the evening the trial ended, one of the jurors posted the following on social media:
“I hope this message is relayed to Harry. I was on the jury, and I want you to know the way questions were framed by the law, we had our hands tied. I’m not going to lie, there are a lot of small-minded people in the world now, and most think more with emotion than logic/truth.
I personally want to thank you for what you did, and consider you a true patriot. After what happened today, I have essentially given up on humanity and am saddened all of the work our Founding Fathers did for us is now in vain.”
Wisconsin’s voter fraud and identity theft laws are intended to prevent people from causing actual harm to someone by stealing their vote or identity. Wait didn’t do either of those things. What he did, openly and to the benefit of everyone, was expose one of the many reasons Wisconsin’s elections are vulnerable to fraud and easily stolen.
The jury’s hands were not tied by the law. They were tied by the lies of Josh Kaul, Adrienne Blais, Leigh Neville-Neil, Robin Vos and Cory Mason. All of them falsely accused Wait of being a thief, and had him convicted as a felon, to hide the serious problems he uncovered with the MyVote website. Their immoral behavior has exposed them as the real criminals in the Harry Wait trial, and unworthy of holding any position of public trust.
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For more information about election integrity in Wisconsin, visit these websites:
Wisconsin Patriots Toolbox at https://wipatriotstoolbox.com/directory-of-election-integrity-allies/
See the Gableman Report to learn how the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin was stolen:
Judge Michael Gableman’s 1st Interim Report | November 10, 2021
https://wipatriotstoolbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Gableman-1st-interim-report.pdf
Judge Michael Gableman’s 2nd Interim Report | March 1, 2022
https://wipatriotstoolbox.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Gableman-2nd-interim-report.pdf