Multiple news organizations called a Wisconsin U.S. Senate race for the Democratic candidate Nov. 6. Six days later, the
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., talks about her victory over Republican challenger Eric Hovde, Nov. 7, 2024, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin law does bars election officials from processing absentee ballots early, making it routine for an influx of absentee ballot votes to be reported late at night or in the early morning hours after Election Day.
These posts were flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about ourThese claims are inaccurate. Wisconsin election experts told PolitiFact that this early morning influx of ballots was expected — and they not only don’t signal anything nefarious, they resulted from adherence to the law.
Woodall, who served as the City of Milwaukee’s Election Commission executive director from 2020 to 2024, wrote in an email that"results from Milwaukee’s Central Count have come in between 12 a.m. and 4 a.m. every Presidential Election due to the restrictive state laws." "It is both expected and routine that absentee ballots — over 100,000 in this case — are counted and reported in the late hours of Election Night due to Wisconsin’s high voter turnout and the rigorous verification standards the MEC upholds," the Election Commission wrote.
“The United States Postal Service recently changed the delivery method of absentee mail-in ballots” to hide “the evidence of absentee mail-in ballot fraud.”
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