March 25, 2026 02:40 PM UTC

Once Again: It's ALWAYS a Republican

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• by: Colorado Pols

Despite what President Trump would have you believe, actual verified examples of attempted voter fraud in the United States are as rare as Trump eating a vegetable.

That isn’t to say that attempted voter fraud never happens. But as we’ve noted in this space time and time again, when voter fraud is uncovered, the pattern is unmistakable: Fraud isn’t attempted by a Democrat or an undocumented immigrant or an Italian space laser.

It’s. Always. A. Republican.

As The Associated Press reports from Wisconsin:

A jury convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft for requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason without their consent.

Jurors in Racine County on Tuesday found Harry Wait guilty of two misdemeanor election fraud charges and one felony identity theft charge following a two-day trial. He was acquitted of a second count of identity theft.

As The Washington Post continues, Wait believes his felonious actions were some sort of public service:

Wait, a 71-year-old retired business consultant, is the president emeritus of a group in southeastern Wisconsin known as HOT Government, which Wait says pushes for honest, open and transparent leadership. Wait has spent years railing against the state-run website that allows Wisconsin voters to find their polling places and order mail ballots…

…Wait asked for the ballots to be sent to his home and then announced he had done so, saying he was highlighting a flaw in the state’s voting processes that bad actors could exploit to cast ballots for other people. The state Justice Department launched an investigation and charged Wait.

One of the municipal clerks who received a request from Wait sent him a ballot; the other did not. Election officials have said that actions like Wait’s are extremely rare and that they would have quickly caught on to them even if he hadn’t disclosed what he did. The state tracks where ballots are sent and investigates when voters question whether someone tried to vote in their name, election officials said. [Pols emphasis]

Wait’s excuse for attempting voter fraud is also remarkably common among Republican fraudsters. In 2024, a Colorado Republican woman named Sally Jane Maxedon told authorities that she and a co-conspirator stole mail ballots and forged signatures on ballots they cast themselves in order to “test” the state’s voter signature verification system. Much like the case of former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters, who broke into her own election computers in an effort to prove that Donald Trump was unjustly denied re-election in 2020, the only thing these Republican “activists” end up proving in the end is that our election systems actually work really well in preventing voter fraud.

Perhaps we should thank people like Wait for doing the rest of us a double service. Not only do we get new examples of how voter fraud is being prevented, but we also get to take criminal fraudsters off the streets. Everybody wins…except for these morons.