Madison, Wisconsin.. A jury has convicted a Wisconsin man of election fraud and identity theft Request ballots Republican State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Corey Mason without their consent.
Racine County jurors on Tuesday found Harry White guilty of two misdemeanor counts of election fraud and one count of identity theft after a two-day trial. He was acquitted of the second charge of identity theft.
White leads a group making false election claims, including that Wisconsin’s elections are rife with fraud and that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Trump lost Wisconsin In 2020, about 21 thousand votes.
Wait admit it in 2022 Request Voss and Mason ballots To try to prove that the state’s voter registration system is vulnerable to fraud. Witt told The Associated Press at the time that he was not surprised that he was charged.
“You have to expect to pay some costs sometimes when you’re trying to work for the greater good,” he said.
His efforts won praise from Republican US Senator Ron Johnson in 2022, who described White as a “white hat hacker”.
After the ruling, wait He told WTMJ That he would “do it again.”
“I tested the system and the system failed,” he said.
No sentencing date has been set. Waiting attorney Joe Bugney did not respond to an email Wednesday asking if he would appeal.
Waiting, 71, faces up to six years in prison on the felony conviction and up to a year in prison on each of the misdemeanor convictions.
His conviction comes after A Jury in 2024 A former Milwaukee election official was found guilty of misconduct in office after she obtained three military absentee ballots using fake names and Social Security numbers in 2022. Like White, Kimberly Zapata said she was trying to expose weaknesses in the state’s election system.
It was Zapata He was fined $3,000 He was sentenced to one year in prison.