Elections
Wisconsin audit of Trump win finds not a single voting machine error
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An audit of the November election won by President Donald Trump in swing-state Wisconsin found that not a single vote was counted incorrectly, altered or missed by tabulating machines.
The audit also found no evidence that any voting machine or software had been hacked or otherwise tampered with. The Wisconsin Elections Commission released audit’s findings last week and is scheduled to discuss them Friday.
Trump defeated former Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin by just over 29,000 votes.
In 2020, when Trump lost to Joe Biden by just under 21,000 votes, Trump and his supporters alleged there was widespread fraud in Wisconsin. But two partial recounts, a nonpartisan audit, a conservative law firm’s review and multiple state and federal lawsuits did not support the claims.
Trump and his allies have not made similar accusations about wrongdoing in the 2024 election that he won.
Meagan Wolfe, Wisconsin’s top elections official, said in a memo that the audit shows the public how effectively elections are run and also works to “dispel any misinformation or disinformation about the security of electronic voting systems.”
The post-election audit is required under state law and has been done after each general election since 2006. Local elections officials in 336 randomly selected municipalities across the state hand-counted 327,230 ballots as part of the 2024 audit. That is nearly 10% of all Wisconsin ballots cast in the 2024 election and the largest post-election audit ever undertaken in the state.
The only errors found during the audit were made by people, not the vote-counting machines. And only five human errors were detected, resulting in an error rate of just 0.0000009%, according to the report.
“My hope is that this reassures persons on all sides of the political aisle that voting tabulators are doing their jobs accurately,” Ann Jacobs, chair of the elections commission, said in a post last week on the social media platform X. “We all lament when our candidate loses, but in WI, it wasn’t because someone hacked the machines. The other guy just got more votes.”
walden
March 3, 2025 at 3:21 pm
Nonsensical article that draws all sort of conclusions from an audit limited in scope to testing the accuracy of voting machines. In the interest of public service, the AP should be banned from authoring any “news” article that involves interpretation of numbers, especially in an article originating from Madison WI.
The audit has nothing to do with the 2020 election, has nothing to do with fraud (a ballot machine malfunction would not be considered fraud), has nothing to do with down-ballot races that were much closer than the presidential election. Regarding the 2020 election, the lawsuits mentioned were mostly not allowed in court so were never adjudicated, and the use of ballot harvesting in Dem strongholds of Madison, Milwaukee and Racine were never addressed, etc, etc.
It would be interesting to know why WIZM relies so much on a discredited news source as the AP. “Media Trust Hits Another Historic Low” – Gallup, Feb 2025
Yvonne
March 3, 2025 at 4:51 pm
Trump banned the AP from the WH. They cannot be trusted anymore. And you’re right why would WIZM rely on a media that lies.
Bob N.
March 3, 2025 at 3:56 pm
I’m not sure what the purpose of this story is.
Are we to say “Congratulations for doing what we hire you to do”?
Are the canvassers saying “Flake off accusers-we don’t make mistakes”?
Will we now get hospital reports telling “No one died on the operating table”?
It could be with these people are being watched a lot closer, they are more attentive to their duties…and that’s a good thing, brought on by the scrutiny. So, thanks to the voters who had doubts.
Yvonne
March 3, 2025 at 4:53 pm
Trump banned the AP from the WH. They cannot be trusted anymore. And you’re right, why would WIZM rely on a media who lies.
Yvonne
March 3, 2025 at 4:55 pm
Trump banned the AP from the WH. They cannot be trusted anymore. And you’re right, why would WIZM rely on a media who lies.