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Johnson & Steil Insist on Election Transparency
Wisconsin’s Republican U.S. Senator and one of southern Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen are demanding answers about Milwaukee’s vote count from the last election.
Senator Ron Johnson and Congressman Bryan Steil on Friday wrote a letter to Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson that asks for answers about the problems at the city’s central count on Election Night.
“We write to you about the events that transpired on November 5th 2024 in the central count of the city of Milwaukee. Our inquiry stems from Wisconsinites' many questions and concerns that remain unanswered about how the city of Milwaukee conducted the central count,” the two wrote in a letter.
The city of Milwaukee recounted more than 30,000 ballots after election managers discovered that voting machine doors weren’t properly closed.
Specifically, Johnson and Steil want an Election Night timeline, a description of the security lapses that led to a recount, and the details about the ballots that had to be counted again, as well as a list of the people involved.
“Wisconsinites deserve to know our elections are conducted with the highest integrity, full transparency, and free from political bias,” the two added. “As a perennial battleground state, Wisconsin elections are always in the national spotlight, which further increases the need for transparency and integrity.”
Johnson was at Milwaukee’s central count on Election Night. He went after getting reports that something went wrong, and that Milwaukee was recounting ballots.
“This was grotesquely disorganized. This is a swing state in maybe the most important election of our lifetime,” Johnson said on Election Night. “This is just unbelievably sloppy.”
Johnson asked for a specific ballot count at the time as well. He said he wanted to make sure that the final vote counted aligned with the ballots that were recounted.
That did not happen on Election Night.
“If they don’t even have the numbers. I get suspicious. If they don’t match, I get pretty suspicious too,” Johnson said on Election Night.
Since then, Milwaukee's election managers have said it was human error that led to the problem.
Johnson and Steil said in their letter that they want answers to their questions by January 3rd.
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