STOP THE STEAL: Milwaukee Officials Handle Ballots in Secret Back Rooms with No Observer Access in Critical Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is not a local, inconsequential election in a battleground state.

This from gellerreport.com.

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This Supreme Court election is ground zero. Every conservative voice should be sounding the alarm.

If Brad Schimel doesn’t win on April 1st, the GOP will lose two House seats in 2026—and with them, the majority.

From Elon Musk:

The Democrats are trying to redraw the districts in Wisconsin… to remove two house seats. That’s what this whole Supreme Court Justice race is about. So I really want to emphasize to people out there, if you’re in Wisconsin.. get out and vote for Brad Schimel.

Now reports are emerging of secret counting backrooms. Remember that in 2020, Milwaukee was home to “Zuckbucks” meddling and late-night ballot dumps.

In 2024, it was the site of alleged ballot harvesting, broken tabulator seals, and a mysterious “black curtain.” As one unnamed source said, “this is a major perception issue.”

Sources: Milwaukee Officials Handle Ballots In Secret Back Rooms With No Observer Access

By: Logan Washburn, The Federalist. March 28, 2025

The elections director of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is apparently playing sheriff. Meanwhile, workers allegedly have been handling ballots in secret rooms inadmissible to observers for weeks.

City workers are allegedly using secret offices, off limits for observers, to handle ballots for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, multiple sources told The Federalist. Milwaukee Elections Director Paulina Gutierrez also allegedly claimed “police powers” to remove observers in a March 19 meeting at Milwaukee Central Count.

Early voting began in the race March 18, and election day is April 1. Former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, backed by Republicans, is running against Democrat-backed Judge Susan Crawford for a 10-year term on the state Supreme Court. Leftists took control of the court in 2023, but with the retirement of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, this race could decide the ideological tilt of the state’s highest court for years.

Gutierrez was formerly deputy elections director to former Elections Director Claire Woodall-Vogg, as The Federalist’s Matt Kittle reported. The leftist Center for Tech and Civic Life, which funneled close to $400 million in “Zuckbucks” from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to election administrators, worked with Woodall-Vogg to install a Democrat activist in the city’s 2020 election process. Woodall-Vogg also joked with the leftist Elections Group about Wisconsin flipping for then-candidate Joe Biden at the last second on election night.

Milwaukee officials ousted Woodall-Vogg from office in spring 2024, as Kittle reported at the time. But according to VoteBeat, Milwaukee election workers were uneasy about replacing her with Gutierrez due to a lack of experience — she had never worked a federal election before 2024. And Wisconsin conservatives feared Gutierrez could be even more hostile to election integrity. She has a background working “as a community organizer, mediator, and restorative justice and gun policy specialist.”

Secret Rooms

For the upcoming state Supreme Court election, Gutierrez allegedly confirmed workers are using secret rooms in Central Count where observers are barred from access, a senior observer who wished to remain anonymous told The Federalist

The rooms are purportedly used to scan ballots as received then divide them by “ward” — the equivalent of an election precinct. “They’re scanning them in, and then they’re sorting them by ward,” the observer said. “Why would it happen in secret?”

The observer claimed to have personally seen the back rooms in Milwaukee Central Count — described as offices with windows “papered over so you can’t actually see what they’re doing.” Gutierrez and the city attorney allegedly confirmed to the observer “they were using those rooms again” and that “they had every right to do that.”

Another source familiar with the matter, who similarly wished to remain unnamed, confirmed to The Federalist Milwaukee election workers will be using rooms at Central Count, inaccessible to observers, to scan ballots as received and sort them into wards. The source said they have been using these rooms for weeks ahead of the election.

“It is a major perception issue, and there are no other municipalities that really do it like this,” the source said. “What could happen back there is the issue, it’s not what they say is happening.”

Gutierrez turned down an offer from the Republican National Committee to monitor activities in those rooms for the sake of transparency, according to the source.

Ballots arrive at Central Count in sealed envelopes with a witness signature, then emerge from the restricted area in sealed envelopes, according to election attorney Daniel Eastman. But “there’s not a real clear chain of custody between ballots that are showing up on election day for tabulation,” he said.