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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

How Journal Sentinel Reporters Molly Beck & Corrine Hess Falsely Smeared Sheriff Schmaling - Wisconsin Right Now

It’s not true that Sheriff Schmaling did not want an investigation in the online voting controversy. The reporters – Molly Beck and Corrine Hess – had to know that. It was in his first press release.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporters Molly Beck and Corrine Hess wrote an egregiously biased story about Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling and his concerns about the state’s online voting process.

The Journal Sentinel is upset that Schmaling initially put more emphasis on his concern over exposed vulnerabilities in the state’s online balloting system than on running out to immediately arrest the citizen who exposed the vulnerabilities at a county fairground.

That citizen had requested other people’s ballots to show the flaws in the system but did not actually vote with them.

The reporters also made false claims that Schmaling wasn’t willing to investigate the matter when his FIRST PRESS RELEASE, which was written before their story, clearly stated that he had already contacted the Attorney General’s office for a full, statewide investigation (the AG is now investigating. The AG was needed to investigate because the citizens’ actions spanned multiple counties, as does the voting database, and Schmaling only has jurisdiction in one).

“Based upon this serious threat to voter integrity, the Sheriff’s Office has contacted the Wisconsin Attorney General’s Office and the Wisconsin Elections Commission,” the sheriff’s first press release read at 4:09 p.m. on July 27, 2022....



Read Full Story: https://www.wisconsinrightnow.com/2022/08/07/molly-beck-corinne-hess/