Hard to say for sure. While they say she wasn’t fired for what is claimed in the tweet above, they also say that she was fired for “other reasons internal to the election commission.” I can’t envision a scenario where they just come out and admit that their election commissioner committed voter fraud on a massive scale.
She was supposedly not fired and offered another position that she declined. The logistics of making / filing out 64000 ballots does not seem realistic. That is 128 reams of paper. You would have to print them, have people fill them out, then upload them. Just does not seem feasible. Here is some more insight where the claim came from
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The 64,000 figure appears to have originated with a Wisconsin man named Peter Bernegger, who has referred to it in other
X posts.
Bernegger was
convicted of bank and mail fraud in Mississippi in 2009, unrelated to any elections. In February, Wisconsin prosecutors accused Bernegger of falsifying a 2023 subpoena in an election-related case, and he was
charged with “simulating legal process,” a
felony. There’s a preliminary hearing for Bernegger scheduled for June 20.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission in 2022
fined Bernegger more than $2,400 for making frivolous election complaints. He has
filed at least 18 lawsuits against Wisconsin election officials alleging fraud.
We reached out to Bernegger by email through his organization,
Election Watch, but received no response.
Woodall said she doesn’t know how Bernegger arrived at “this magical 64,000 number.”
“I can assure you I did not print 64,000 ballots and that does not appear in the deposition,” Woodall said.
Bernegger filed a 2021 open records lawsuit against Woodall. Although the lawsuit didn’t refer to the 64,000 figure, he accused Woodall and others of printing ballots in a City Hall conference room.
That number did come up in Woodall’s April 13, 2022, deposition in that case, provided to PolitiFact by Milwaukee Assistant City Attorney Peter Block. But it wasn’tin the context Bernegger described in his
X post.
Bernegger asked about an absentee ballot application, which Woodall said are used for voters seeking in-person absentee ballots. Bernegger asked how many were accepted by Woodall’s office in the November 2020 election, and she said between 60,000 and 64,000. She did not, however, say anything about printing those ballots in a City Hall back room.
Block said the Milwaukee County Circuit Court ruled against Bernegger and dismissed the case last year, but Bernegger has appealed to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals, which has not reached a decision.
Fleming said it’s not physically or logistically possible for the city to print 64,000 ballots in a back room at City Hall.
“The city does not maintain commercial printing capabilities, which would be needed to print tens-of-thousands of ballots,” he said.
All ballots are printed by city vendors, unless a ward exceeds anticipated turnout, Fleming said. In those cases, small batches of new ballots can be printed, he said.
“There would be dozens printed, not the thousands that are falsely claimed,” Fleming said.