Those of a certain age (old like me) will remember Dana Carvey’s recurring character, the sanctimonious Church Lady, on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s — when SNL was funny. After a celebrity guest would finish up some story of moral depravity, the Church Lady would raise her left brow and patronizingly declare, “Well, isn’t that special?”
We need an election integrity Church Lady in the office of the Milwaukee Election Commission.
Although, there was nothing particularly special about Tuesday’s late-night absentee ballot debacle in a blue city that has routinely been the center of state — and national — election scandal for years.
'The Moment Milwaukee Elections Staff Screwed Up'
Like a fox investigating a henhouse homicide, the Milwaukee Election Commission has launched a review into the “human error” that led to a long delay in counting some 28,000 absentee ballots cast in last week’s Democratic Party gubernatorial primary.
“Since 2024, we’ve conducted after-action reviews every election, and our review for this partisan primary is underway. It’s an entire department-wide effort,” said Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Paulina Gutierrez during a special meeting Friday evening, according to TMJ4.
Milwaukee’s top election official claims memory sticks that contained audit logs on five of the nine data storage devices — not election results — were delivered to the Milwaukee County Clerk’s Office on primary election night. Oops.
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