{"id":910716,"date":"2021-10-22T16:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=910716"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:58:54","slug":"wisconsin-audit-finds-that-2020-election-was-secure-voting-machines-counted-accurately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-audit-finds-that-2020-election-was-secure-voting-machines-counted-accurately\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Audit Finds That 2020 Election Was Secure, Voting Machines Counted Accurately"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-audit-finds-that-2020-election-was-secure-voting-machines-counted-accurately%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=910716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Wisconsin\u2019s nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election found that the race was secure and that voting machines correctly tabulated the results, contradicting discredited claims made by former President Donald Trump and his allies that the election was rigged against him.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/lab\/pdfjs\/viewer.html?file=\/media\/3288\/21-19full.pdf#B39\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>, conducted by the state\u2019s Legislative Audit Bureau, found that the machines made no notable errors. Though the panel offered multiple suggestions for future elections, it said that the audit underscored that the Wisconsin election was secure and free of widespread fraud.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite concerns with statewide elections procedures, this audit showed us that the election was largely safe and secure,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenRobCowles\/status\/1451561514654175235?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>&nbsp;Republican&nbsp;state Sen. Robert Cowles, co-chair of the Legislative Audit Committee which ordered the report. \u201cIt\u2019s my hope that we can now look at election law changes &amp; agency accountability measures in a bipartisan manner based on these nonpartisan recommendations.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/30\/arizona-wisconsin-certify-election-results-affirming-narrow-joe-biden-victories\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Wisconsin Certifies Biden\u2019s Victory)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7307634\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7307634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Robert Cowles co-chaired the committee that ordered the audit. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The auditors found that 59 of the 60 voting machines tested gave accurate counts, with just one producing insufficient data to make a determination. They also reviewed 175 tests of the machines, roughly half of which occurred 10 days or less after the election as state law mandates.<\/p>\n<p>The report suggested that lawmakers formalize how election workers should go about filling in missing procedural information on absentee ballots and on the future use of drop boxes. It added that officials in Milwaukee County and Madison, Wisconsin, the state\u2019s largest Democratic strongholds, did not hand over ballots in order to protect election records.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the audit failed to produce any evidence that widespread fraud cost Trump the state and its 10 electoral votes, which President Joe Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/joe-biden-beats-donald-trump-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">won by just over 20,000 votes<\/a>.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/donald-trump-endorsed-maricopa-county-audit-biden-won-larger-margin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Trump-Endorsed Arizona Audit Found That Biden Won By More Than Originally Tallied)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the findings show that WEC (Wisconsin Elections Commission) and its staff are not complying with state statute on several fronts, from clerk training to verification of voters and voter registration,\u201d Cowles said in an accompanying <a href=\"https:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/senate\/02\/cowles\/press-releases\/2021\/elections-administration-audit-released\/\">press release<\/a>. \u201cI plan to work closely with my legislative colleagues to address the recommendations in this audit, and I expect to have a hearing on this audit soon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin\u2019s nonpartisan audit of the 2020 presidential election found that the race was secure and that voting machines correctly tabulated the results, contradicting discredited claims made by former President Donald &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-910716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}