To Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, the Racine County man who fraudulently sought d absentee ballots to prove voter fraud exists, shouldn't be prosecuted.
Instead, Johnson said Harry Wait should be called a "white hat hacker" for "trying to show a vulnerability" in the system overseen by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
"There was no malign intent to what he did," Johnson told reporters Tuesday, at an event in Milwaukee focused on border security.
Asked if Wait should face felony charges, Johnson said "I certainly wouldn't prosecute whatever he did. I appreciate what he did. I think he did the public a service showing a vulnerability that obviously WEC isn't concerned about."
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, and others submitted false information to obtain absentee ballots to show violations of the law are possible.
Among those whose ballots the group went for were Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Racine Mayor Cory Mason.
Wait went into the MyVote system and requested that the absentee ballots for Vos and Mason be sent to his address.
Johnson said Wait's actions should have led WEC officials to shut down that function on the online system.
WEC did not respond to the latest report, instead pointing to a previous statement from WEC Administrator Megan Wolfe.
Wolfe said, in part, "Intentionally using someone else’s identity to subvert the system does not demonstrate a...
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