Rep. Brandtjen Questions Motives Behind Fake Military Ballots
The Republican lawmaker who received fake military ballots in the mail says she isn’t sure they were sent to help.
Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, on Friday said the Democrats who run Milwaukee’s Elections Commission “ are not my friends.”
“If I did not know better, and I’m not really good at being a victim, I think this is more a case of some people trying to get some revenge,” Brandtjen said.
Milwaukee’s mayor on Thursday fired the city’s deputy elections director, Kimberly Zapata , after he said she admitted to ordering three fake military ballots and sending them to Brandtjen.
“These are the same people who I’ve [filed] open records requests on for [The Center for Tech and Civic Life] for at least 18 months,” Brandtjen explained. “Why would she risk her job, her pension, embarrassment, jail? All she had to do is pick up the phone and tell me this.”
Brandtjen added that she didn’t know Wisconsin’s MyVote system had a military ballot loophole until she got the bal