Overview
- Jurors found Wait guilty on three of four counts after more than three hours of deliberation, including two election-fraud counts and one for misusing someone else’s identifying information.
- Prosecutors said the case began in 2022 when Wait used Wisconsin’s MyVote website, which lets voters request absentee ballots by mail, to order ballots in other people’s names to his Union Grove address.
- The criminal complaint cited Wait’s own online videos and messages admitting he used others’ personal details without permission to make the requests.
- A clerk flagged and stopped a request made in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ name, while a ballot requested in Racine Mayor Cory Mason’s name arrived and was returned unopened to authorities.
- Sentencing has not been scheduled, and the verdict underscores that posing as another voter through the online portal is treated as a crime even when presented as a system test.