Milwaukee’s Election Commission Has Had a Problem in Every Election for Three Years — and the FBI May Be Coming
On Tuesday night, Milwaukee election staff loaded the wrong information onto USB drives — delivering audit logs instead of vote totals to reporting systems, causing more than an hour delay while the rest of Wisconsin waited. The Milwaukee Election Commission called it an error. The video camera in the room told a different story.
Would any reasonable person look at a screen saying “Export Audit Log
Reporter A. J. Bayatpour obtained footage showing the moment staff made the alleged mistake. At the top of the screen, in plain text, it says “Export Audit Log.” Staff members clicked through a confirmation prompt — which asked if they wanted to export audit data — and said yes. Five times. Then handed out USB drives containing audit logs instead of vote totals and apparently didn’t notice until it was too late. click confirm, and genuinely not know they were exporting audit data? The City of Milwaukee wants you to believe five different people did exactly that. This is now the third election in three consecutive years where Milwaukee’s central count has had a significant issue. In 2024, voting machine doors were left unsealed. In 2025, a ballot shortage emerged during a key race. In 2026, the wrong button produces an hour-long delay. Three elections. Three problems. All in the same Democrat-run city that routinely submits its vote totals last — after the rest of Wisconsin has already reported.
The timing of Milwaukee’s delays has drawn attention for years because it follows a pattern critics argue is deliberate
wait to see how much the rest of the state has moved, then report totals accordingly. Tuesday’s primary amplified those suspicions. Francesca Hong was told she had a 20-point lead going into election night. She lost by 0. 42 percent — fewer than 3,300 votes — after Milwaukee’s delayed totals came in. State Rep. Scott Krug is calling for a legislative investigation into Milwaukee’s central count operation. Wisconsin is one of only six states that doesn’t allow absentee ballot processing to begin before Election Day — an issue Krug says he’s open to fixing, but which he acknowledges isn’t the only problem: “There’s still personnel problems going on at central count and Milwaukee itself.” townhall There is talk of the FBI investigating the Milwaukee Election Commission over Tuesday’s events. James Bond creator Ian Fleming said it first and said it best: once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.
Milwaukee has had an election problem three elections in a row
The video shows staff clicking through a confirmation screen that explicitly told them what they were exporting — and doing it anyway. The FBI is being asked to look at it. The SAVE America Act would address the underlying vulnerabilities. The Senate is on vacation. November is 84 days away.
