Private Non-Government Agent Controlled Voting Machines, Ballots, and Secret Wi-Fi Access Point at Grand Hyatt Central Count (WI)

The OSC documented that on election day 2020, all voting machines in Green Bay were ESS machines connected to a secret, hidden Wi-Fi access point located at the Grand Hyatt hotel – Green Bay’s central count facility. The Wi-Fi access point, the machines, and the ballots at the central count facility were controlled by a single individual: Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, an agent of a private organization (CTCL) who was not a government employee and who held no statutory election authority. Control of ballot custody and tabulation equipment by a private actor without statutory authority is not merely a procedural irregularity; it is a fundamental chain-of-custody breach. No government official can certify the integrity of ballots whose chain of custody passed through a private actor with undisclosed interests and unrestricted access.