Established Fact
WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe made the following specific statements to the Wisconsin State Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, each of which was subsequently documented by the OSC to be contradicted by primary evidence:
- she stated she did not know about CTCL grants to the Zuckerberg 5 cities – contradicted by grant agreement documents bearing WEC involvement;
- she stated Wisconsin cities did not have access to statewide WisVote or BadgerBooks data – contradicted by city-provided records and city officials’ direct admissions of API access;
- she stated no Application Programming Interface existed into the WisVote or BadgerBooks system – contradicted by the OSC’s forensic discovery of the ballot-tracking application operating via live API connection into WisVote.
False statements to a legislative committee by a government official are actionable under Wis. Stat. § 946.31 (perjury before legislative body) if made under oath, and under Wis. Stat. § 946.12(2) (misconduct in public office) if made in an official proceeding. The WisVote API finding is particularly significant: Wolfe’s denial of the API’s existence was directly aimed at preventing the legislature from understanding the mechanism by which private entities had obtained real-time access to statewide voter data for targeted ballot-harvesting operations.
Citations
OSC Second Interim Report: https://www.wispolitics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/220322_Second_Report_Pages_11-16.pdf | WisPolitics