Wisconsin weighs changes to military absentee voting after top election official charged with fraud

Kimberly Zapata, former deputy director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, is accused of taking advantage of relaxed requirements intended to help service members vote. A criminal complaint says Zapata used fictitious voter information to send three military absentee ballots to the home of a state lawmaker in October. Investigators said Zapata told them she was trying to expose vulnerabilities in the election system.

Military absentee ballots are a tiny part of the vote in Wisconsin - on average about 0.07% of the absentee ballots requested, according to the election commission. That has translated to around 2,800 ballots in recent midterm elections. Military voters don't have to register to vote in Wisconsin and must only provide their name, address and date of birth to get an absentee ballot. Federal law prohibits states from requiring permanent overseas and military voters to provide a photo ID.

"It's not necessarily a photo ID requirement from what I understand how that would look," said Wolfe. "It's more or less an opportunity for military voters to be able to verify their identity using the technologies that they may have." "It's very possible that federal law would not allow such a framework since it would be adding an additional requirement to the voting process," said Riley Vetterkind, a spokesman for the election commission.

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