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BumRushDaShow

(169,452 posts)
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 03:55 PM Wednesday

Right-Wing Election Activist Convicted Of Voter Fraud: 'I Would Do It Again'

Source: Huff Post

Mar 25, 2026, 12:59 PM EDT | Updated 2 hours ago


A conservative activist in Wisconsin whose organization pushed President Donald Trump’s 2020 election claims was convicted Tuesday night of election fraud ― and said he would do it again. “When you poke the bear you get that type of outcome, yes. I would do it again,” 71-year-old Harry Wait told local news station WTMJ-TV, adding that he “tested the system” and “the system failed.”

Wait’s conviction comes years after he requested absentee ballots in 2022 for Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason to be sent to his own address, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by local news station WISN. He had used the politicians’ personal identification information without their consent.

The activist, who co-founded HOT Government, an organization aimed for government transparency, claimed he requested the ballots in order to prove how vulnerable the MyVote system was.

Since his initial arrest, Wait has become an icon within his circle, as supporters wear “Free Harry” T-shirts and military-style dog tags with Wait’s name at rallies, according to The Washington Post. Liberal watchdog group American Oversight described Wait’s organization as one that promotes “fringe theories” about the 2020 election. In 2022, a Wisconsin judge found there was “absolutely no evidence of election fraud” into the 2020 presidential election.

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/harry-wait-election-fraud-conviction-hot-government_n_69c3ff3de4b018d43a59c350

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Right-Wing Election Activist Convicted Of Voter Fraud: 'I Would Do It Again' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP
Sweet, another nasty nutcase believing that he's a hero. Dave Bowman Wednesday #1
Let's hope he gets an appropriate sentence for his zero remorse and spends the majority of the rest of his life in priso JT45242 Wednesday #2
@ 71 just doing 1 or 2 years could be fatal Botany Wednesday #3
GOOD! AZ8theist Yesterday #18
And @ the end of the day just about all of them are driven by racism and hatred of smart people. Botany Yesterday #20
So, if it was so easy to commit fraud Miguelito Loveless Wednesday #4
No one does mental conditioning quite like the Fox News MAGA party. Initech Wednesday #5
True fact: If Republicans really did reduce voter fraud, they'd be hurting themselves William Seger Wednesday #6
There's no fool.... SergeStorms Wednesday #7
The system didn't fail. He was convicted. What a moron. Martin68 Wednesday #8
Holy Shit!!!! Voter fraud running rampant and perpetrators openly proud of doing so!! Scalded Nun Wednesday #9
99.9% of voter fraud is carried out by Republicans. City Lights Wednesday #10
This party ( rethuglicon party) is the party GUILTY of everything that bluestarone Wednesday #11
AND the "FEMA Camps". BumRushDaShow Wednesday #12
EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION AZ8theist Yesterday #19
Dibs on his bar stool! BidenRocks Wednesday #13
What a hero! Aussie105 Wednesday #14
The system didn't fail Figarosmom Wednesday #15
I've been following this from here in Wisconsin. Dr. T Wednesday #16
It's one of them just about every time. Six117 Yesterday #17
Bear? Ha! How 'bout slob wolfie001 Yesterday #21

JT45242

(4,034 posts)
2. Let's hope he gets an appropriate sentence for his zero remorse and spends the majority of the rest of his life in priso
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 04:03 PM
Wednesday

The felony count is up to 6 years and $10K
Let's hope they make him serve the misdemeanor counts consecutively given his complete lack of remorse and statement that he would do it again.

Let him rot in prison from age 71 to 78, if he makes it that long,

Botany

(77,276 posts)
3. @ 71 just doing 1 or 2 years could be fatal
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 04:13 PM
Wednesday

Oh well FAFO. Serves him right for believing right wing lies.

AZ8theist

(7,337 posts)
18. GOOD!
Thu Mar 26, 2026, 02:55 AM
Yesterday

It's about time we culled the heard of MAGATS.

Nasty vermin these MAGATS are......

Botany

(77,276 posts)
20. And @ the end of the day just about all of them are driven by racism and hatred of smart people.
Thu Mar 26, 2026, 07:15 AM
Yesterday

They are truly sick in the brain and they enjoy that Trump is a nasty prick too so they willingly buy
into his, Fox News, their pastor, and the right wing’s lies knowing full well they are lies.

End @ the end of his days lying there in his jail cell I hope he is tormented by the knowledge that
he is dying for the lies that fed his brain such shit.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,735 posts)
4. So, if it was so easy to commit fraud
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 04:15 PM
Wednesday

why did he get caught?

These people believe the Left commits fraud because it is what they would do.

William Seger

(12,439 posts)
6. True fact: If Republicans really did reduce voter fraud, they'd be hurting themselves
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 04:58 PM
Wednesday

Unfortunately, their objective is to reduce Democratic votes.

SergeStorms

(20,547 posts)
7. There's no fool....
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 05:00 PM
Wednesday

like an old fool.

You'd think by 71 yrs. old he'd know how to separate the wheat from the chaff. Guess not.

Scalded Nun

(1,687 posts)
9. Holy Shit!!!! Voter fraud running rampant and perpetrators openly proud of doing so!!
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 05:19 PM
Wednesday

Wait...still just a literal handful from the 10s of millions of voters.
Wait again...It is AGAIN another right-wing ass-wipe, meaning again, almost EVERY SINGLE CASE of voter fraud is committed by a GOP supporter.

That can mean only one thing...We need hearings to figure out how the DEMs figured out how to cheat without getting caught.

bluestarone

(22,135 posts)
11. This party ( rethuglicon party) is the party GUILTY of everything that
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 05:29 PM
Wednesday

They accuse us of doing, all the way back to the DEATH PANEL accusations!!!

Aussie105

(7,902 posts)
14. What a hero!
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 08:28 PM
Wednesday

Taking on 'the system' and proving 'the system' can be corrupted!

Harry wins!

Go Harry! (Straight to jail.)

Figarosmom

(11,889 posts)
15. The system didn't fail
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 08:56 PM
Wednesday

If he would have tried voting with those ballots he would have been arrested. Plus he committed fraud and WAS arrested and convicted. He proved nothing. But in his pea brain he doesn't seem to get it.

He also committed identity theft and was caught.

Dr. T

(635 posts)
16. I've been following this from here in Wisconsin.
Wed Mar 25, 2026, 09:03 PM
Wednesday

He committed voter fraud just to prove he could. That's like me robbing a bank just to prove I could.

Lock ... him ... up.

Six117

(336 posts)
17. It's one of them just about every time.
Thu Mar 26, 2026, 12:09 AM
Yesterday

But we dare not question supposedly "free and fair elections".

What a world.

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