MADISON, Wis. — A recent audit of the November election in Wisconsin, a pivotal swing state, has confirmed that not a single vote was miscounted, altered, or overlooked by the tabulating machines.
The findings also revealed no traces of hacking or tampering with voting machines or their software. These results were disseminated by the Wisconsin Elections Commission last week and are slated for further discussion on Friday.
President Donald Trump emerged victorious over former Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin, with a margin of just over 29,000 votes. This stands in contrast to the 2020 election, where Trump narrowly lost to Joe Biden by fewer than 21,000 votes. Despite claims of extensive voter fraud in Wisconsin by Trump and his supporters at that time, subsequent partial recounts, a nonpartisan audit, a review by a conservative law firm, and multiple lawsuits at both the state and federal levels negated these allegations.
In the 2024 election, where Trump secured a win, neither he nor his allies have suggested any election fraud occurred.
Meagan Wolfe, the chief official for elections in Wisconsin, noted in a memo that the audit exemplifies how elections are conducted efficiently and aims to dispel misinformation or disinformation regarding the security of electronic voting systems.
The post-election audit is mandated by state law and has been standard practice after each general election since 2006. As part of the 2024 audit, local election officials in 336 randomly chosen municipalities conducted hand counts of 327,230 ballots. This constituted nearly 10% of all votes in Wisconsin for the 2024 election, marking the largest post-election audit in the state’s history.
The report identified only human errors, not machine-related discrepancies, with a mere five instances of human mistakes, translating to an error rate of 0.0000009%.
Ann Jacobs, chair of the elections commission, expressed her hopes in a recent social media post, stating, “My hope is that this reassures persons on all sides of the political aisle that voting tabulators are doing their jobs accurately. We all lament when our candidate loses, but in WI, it wasn’t because someone hacked the machines. The other guy just got more votes.”
