FIDO Key Mismanagement and Private Operative’s Control of Hidden Election-Night Wi-Fi Network (WI)

The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued 3,137 FIDO (Fast Identity Online) hardware security keys for WisVote database access while admitting it cannot account for how many keys it has actually issued. At least one county received 15 keys after requesting only 2, and was told to hold unused keys “just in case.” Of 2,938 active keys at one audit point, 1,929 (66%) were issued with full clerk-level access, rendering multi-factor authentication effectively meaningless. In Green Bay, CTCL-affiliated operative Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein – a Brooklyn-based attorney with no governmental authority – controlled a hidden Wi-Fi access point at the Grand Hyatt Hotel facility to which all Green Bay ESS voting machines were connected on election night. He simultaneously had physical access to ballots and machines and made the determination that late-arriving ballots should be counted.