Milwaukee Election Head “Lost” Flash Drive Hours Before Dump Gave Biden Lead in Wisconsin

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It has now been revealed that Executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, Claire Woodall-Vogg, “briefly lost” a flash drive containing crucial Wisconsin absentee voter information in the early morning hours of Nov. 4.

Vogg realized she lost the drive when she left, with police escort, the Central Count building where ballots were being tallied. She was heading to the county courthouse to report the results of more than 169,000 absentee ballots collected in the City of Milwaukee.

There is a question as to whether ballots on that flash drive are legal, as it is against Wisconsin Election Law to break the legal chain of custody in reporting tabulated votes.

Wisconsin Right Now reports:

Three days after this story first ran, Woodall-Vogg wrote a letter to the Wisconsin Election Commission in which she explained her side of what happened. In the letter, she admitted that, when she got to Milwaukee County with the flash drives, she couldn’t find one of them. She says the flash drive was sitting in a tabulator machine, a senior staff member removed the flash drive and turned it over to a Milwaukee police officer who then delivered it to her 10 minutes later. She alleges that the incident did not alter the results of the election and that the District Attorney’s office conducted an investigation to establish chain of custody.

President Trump was leading in Wisconsin at the end of the counting period on election night. By the next morning a batch of absentee ballots that overwhelmingly went for Joe Biden and against President Trump gave Biden the lead in the state.

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