The FBI has questioned a Milwaukee election worker who was assigned to Central Count on Election Night 2020, the woman told the Heartland Post exclusively. Two agents showed up at the woman’s home last week and interviewed her about an affidavit she swore in 2020 about witnessing secretive late-night ballot counts.
“Last week Wednesday, two FBI agents knocked on my apartment door,” she said. “I spent almost an hour with them answering their questions and going through my affidavit.”
The Heartland Post is not naming the woman, as she is a potential material witness in an ongoing federal investigation. That investigation, which includes FBI interviews with dozens of Milwaukee Police officers, is apparently focused on former Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg.
“The agents showed me a picture of [Woodall-Vogg] and asked me if I recognized her,” the election worker told The Heartland Post. “I told them I recognized her picture. I told them she was the head person at Central Count and trained a group of us for the ballot count.”
The woman told The Heartland Post that Woodall-Vogg’s actions on Election Night were a primary focus of the agents’ questions.
“They were very interested in what she was doing and saying that night,” the woman said.
The agents also asked her about her the claims she made in a 2020 affidavit that election workers were counting absentee ballots long after it was announced that all ballots were counted and that the Election Night work was over.
“At 10:30pm, someone announced over the loud speaker system that all the ballots were counted and we could call it a night,” the woman said. “Since I was being paid by the hour, I asked if there was anything I could help with. I went to the back of the room where this guy was reconciling the machine count with the hand count. We then bundled the ballots for shipment to where ever they were supposed to be stored.”
She thought that this was the final batch of ballots that would need to be processed, but more kept coming in and were only being counted in remote areas of the ballroom floor that served as the Central Count facility at the Baird Center.
“At midnight I took a break and walked around the ballroom,” the woman explained. “They had turned most of the lights off but at the far end of the room, there were bright lights on and people apparently working on ballots. I asked somebody what was going on, and the person said they got a late delivery of absentee ballots and were working on them. I went back to work on the ballots reconciling with the machine count.
“At 2:30 am, I got ready to leave and I was surprised to see people still working on the intake of ballots. I signed out my time work hours and asked one of the guys standing around if they could walk me to my car.”
The woman never alleged that what she saw was illegal, only suspicious and in apparent violation of the rules established for ballot counters. She decided to report her suspicions to poll observers and swore out an affidavit with a Republican attorney.
That affidavit, she told the Heartland Post, was the primary focus of the FBI agents’ questions last week. She said she was not a target of their investigation and was not in any trouble, but that the agents wanted to know what went on at Central Count.
The FBI is apparently conducting a widening investigation into the way Milwaukee officials handled the 2020 election. An agent attempted to interview the executive director of the Milwaukee County Election Commission last week and this week started scheduling interviews with Milwaukee Police officers.
Those officer interviews appear to be centered on the actions of Woodall-Vogg, who left behind a flash drive containing tabulated vote totals at Central Count when she received a police escort to deliver the votes to the Milwaukee County Election Commission for final entry into the county’s vote count.
She said that when she realized she forgot the drive, she called an employee to retrieve it. He found it still plugged into a tabulator and gave it to a Milwaukee Police officer for transport to the County Election Commission.
The FBI’s Milwaukee probe seems to be part of a broader national investigation into the 2020 presidential election. FBI Director Kash Patel said last month that an investigation was ongoing and that there would be arrests “very soon.”
