According to Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling, an intensive investigation found that a nursing home in the county was the epicenter of voter fraud.
“Election statute was in fact not just broken, but shattered by members of the Wisconsin Elections Commission,” Schmaling reportedly said.
The daughter of a former resident at the Ridgewood Care Facility, only identified as Judy, tipped law enforcement off to possibly illegal activity at the nursing home. Judy said that her mother, who was suffering from severe cognitive decline, died in October of 2020. Still, Judy managed to cast an absentee ballot in the November election.
Racine County Sgt. Michael Leull led the investigation, and gave the stunning details of Judy’s complaint during a press conference Thursday, wherein he claimed that employees of the nursing facility voted on behalf of Judy’s mother.
He said:
This case starts with a very brave woman named Judy. She had a mother who was a resident at the Ridgewood Care Facility, and unfortunately, her mother passed on Oct. 9, 2020, before the presidential – and clearly there was other races going on – election. Judy was curious. After her mother passed, after the election, she checked on myvotewisconsin.com, which anyone can do, and she was able to learn that her mother’s vote actually counted in that election after her mother had passed on. It is interesting to note that Shirley – strike that – Judy, whose mother’s name is Shirley was experiencing severe cognitive decline. Physically she was in decline, and to some degree she was giving up on life unfortunately in her last days. She didn’t want to keep up on current events. Didn’t watch TV. Didn’t read. [She] was just at a low point before she passed. So Judy was concerned, and Judy reached out to the Ridgewood Care Facility and said ‘how could my mother possibly have voted?’ And she was informed by the executive director that the Wisconsin Election Commission authorized the employees of these facilities to execute the vote, which by the way, is a direct violation of election law.
The sheriff’s office went to work investigating others who voted at Ridgewood Care Facility, which had what was described as “an unusual surge in voting activity in 2020.”
That investigation, which relied on family members of those residing at the facility, found that of the 42 residents of the facility who voted in 2020, eight did not have the cognitive function to vote.
Schmaling reportedly said that he expects others will come forward with similar stories, and asked Attorney General Josh Kaul (D) to immediately investigate.
Kaul has previously dismissed the Wisconsin Republican legislature’s efforts to investigate voter fraud in the 2020 race. He says that the legislature is overstepping its authority.
“This fake investigation is an abuse of the Legislature’s authority,” Kaul said in mid-October. “Wisconsin taxpayers shouldn’t be on the hook for [the legislature’s] beginners guide to election administrations and investigations.”
“What we are seeing here is not a serious investigation,” Kaul continued. “This investigation suffers from glaring flaws that destroys any credibility that its results could have.”
He did not elaborate on the “glaring flaws” from which the investigation suffers.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a contributor at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter. Email tips to [email protected].
Background Photo “Ridgewood Care Center” by Ridgewood Care Center.
