A conservative group investigating allegations of election fraud in Wisconsin was unable to find any evidence of wrongdoing or miscounting that would have affected the state's 2020 results — with the entire 10-month endeavor costing taxpayers more than $600,000.
Wisconsin Institute for Liberty and Law (WILL), the group in charge of the investigation, examined nearly 20,000 ballots and 29,000 absentee ballots, writing in a report that it found "no evidence of widespread voter fraud," according to Forbes. Just 42 ballots were confirmed to be someone voting on behalf of someone who was deceased, and 130 ballots were found to come from registered felons.
The group also found no evidence of "ballot dumping" for President Joe Biden.
The group also spent months investigating accusations from MyPillow CEO-turned-election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, including the claim that technology made by election security company Dominion voting systems was hacked or otherwise manipulated. But, unsurprisingly to elections experts who had been sounding the alarm for months that Lindell's claims were bogus, WILL was unable to substantiate those claims.
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In fact, the group even noted that Democrats underperformed expectations, on average, in areas that used the Dominion Voting machines in question.
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