MADISON - A Union Grove man who illegally requested absentee ballots to make a statement about election security was found guilty of election fraud by a jury.
Harry Wait, a leader of a Racine County-based group known as H.O.T. Government that promotes false claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election, was found guilty of two counts of misdemeanor election fraud and one count of identity theft by a Walworth County jury on Tuesday, March 24 after a two-day trial.
Wait was charged by Attorney General Josh Kaul in 2022 after he posed as Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason to request their absentee ballots in order to show violations of the law are possible.
The jury found him not guilty of a second felony identity theft charge. He faces up to seven years in prison.
Wait is a leader of a Racine County group that focuses its advocacy on the false election claims, including that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election and that Wisconsin's elections are rife with fraud.
"I'm glad I did it. I would do it again in a heartbeat," Wait told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel when he was charged in 2022.
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