STOP THE STEAL: Milwaukee Officials Handle Ballots In Secret Back Rooms With No Observer Access in Critical Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is no local, inconsequential election in a battleground state.

“This Supreme Court election is ground zero. Every conservative voice should be sounding the alarm. If Brad Schimel doesn’t win on April 1st, the GOP will lose two House seats in 2026—and with them, the majority.” (X)

“The Democrats are trying to redraw the districts in Wisconsin… to remove two house seats. That’s what this whole Supreme Court Justice race is about. So I really want to emphasize to people out there, if you’re in Wisconsin.. get out and vote for Brad Schimel.” (Elon Musk)

The Democrat billionaire cabal are dumping millions into this race. More than 80 million dollars has been spent. It is the most expensive State Supreme Court contest on record.

Now reports are emerging of secret counting backrooms. Remember that in 2020, Milwaukee was home to “Zuckbucks” meddling and late-night ballot dumps. In 2024, it was the site of alleged ballot harvesting, broken tabulator seals, and a mysterious “black curtain.” As one unnamed source said, “this is a major perception issue.”

Democrats said the quiet part out loud.

They are trying to steal 2 House seats by buying the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Hakeem Jeffries desperately wants to become Speaker.

Vote Brad Schimel on April 1st.

You have 4️⃣ days. pic.twitter.com/lLQaGFvTTb

— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) March 29, 2025

Attention Florida and Wisconsin:

You have elections right now that will control the House in 2026

Wisconsin – go vote for Brad Schimel or your Supreme Court will redistrict the GOP out of at least 2 House seats

Florida CD-1 – Go vote for Jimmy Patronis for Congress to fill…

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) March 28, 2025

@reidhoffman shocking 😂.. $14mn for a Supreme Court position in Wisconsin. Leaning hard on the gerrymandering, the common ground w/ deviant activity only adds to the irony here pic.twitter.com/W7IZBefvR3

— QEInfinity (@QEInfinity1) March 23, 2025

Polymarket says there is a 90% chance Democrats WIN THE WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT SEAT 🚨

Supreme Court Judge nominee Susan Crawford is called out for being BOUGHT, PAID FOR AND ENDORSED BY GEORGE SOROS

It’s EXTREMELY IMPORTANT for Wisconsin to get out and vote for Brad Schimel pic.twitter.com/rZND82XY0t

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) March 27, 2025

George Soros.
Bernie Sanders.
Tim Walz.

The Far-Left is backing Susan Crawford to steal 2 congressional seats.

We must stop them. pic.twitter.com/s0g7YVJTFD

— Team Schimel (@TeamSchimel) March 29, 2025

Sources: Milwaukee Officials Handle Ballots In Secret Back Rooms With No Observer Access

By: Logan Washburn, The Federalist. March 28, 2025

The elections director of Milwaukee, Wisconsin is apparently playing sheriff. Meanwhile, workers allegedly have been handling ballots in secret rooms inadmissible to observers for weeks.

City workers are allegedly using secret offices, off limits for observers, to handle ballots for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, multiple sources told The Federalist. Milwaukee Elections Director Paulina Gutierrez also allegedly claimed “police powers” to remove observers in a March 19 meeting at Milwaukee Central Count.

Early voting began in the race March 18, and election day is April 1. Former Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel, backed by Republicans, is running against Democrat-backed Judge Susan Crawford for a 10-year term on the state Supreme Court. Leftists took control of the court in 2023, but with the retirement of Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, this race could decide the ideological tilt of the state’s highest court for years.

Gutierrez was formerly deputy elections director to former Elections Director Claire Woodall-Vogg, as The Federalist’s Matt Kittle reported. The leftist Center for Tech and Civic Life, which funneled close to $400 million in “Zuckbucks” from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to election administrators, worked with Woodall-Vogg to install a Democrat activist in the city’s 2020 election process. Woodall-Vogg also joked with the leftist Elections Group about Wisconsin flipping for then-candidate Joe Biden at the last second on election night.

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Milwaukee officials ousted Woodall-Vogg from office in spring 2024, as Kittle reported at the time. But according to VoteBeat, Milwaukee election workers were uneasy about replacing her with Gutierrez due to a lack of experience — she had never worked a federal election before 2024. And Wisconsin conservatives feared Gutierrez could be even more hostile to election integrity. She has a background working “as a community organizer, mediator, and restorative justice and gun policy specialist.”

Secret Rooms

For the upcoming state Supreme Court election, Gutierrez allegedly confirmed workers are using secret rooms in Central Count where observers are barred from access, a senior observer who wished to remain anonymous told The Federalist

The rooms are purportedly used to scan ballots as received then divide them by “ward” — the equivalent of an election precinct. “They’re scanning them in, and then they’re sorting them by ward,” the observer said. “Why would it happen in secret?”

The observer claimed to have personally seen the back rooms in Milwaukee Central Count — described as offices with windows “papered over so you can’t actually see what they’re doing.” Gutierrez and the city attorney allegedly confirmed to the observer “they were using those rooms again” and that “they had every right to do that.”

Another source familiar with the matter, who similarly wished to remain unnamed, confirmed to The Federalist Milwaukee election workers will be using rooms at Central Count, inaccessible to observers, to scan ballots as received and sort them into wards. The source said they have been using these rooms for weeks ahead of the election.

“It is a major perception issue, and there are no other municipalities that really do it like this,” the source said. “What could happen back there is the issue, it’s not what they say is happening.”

Gutierrez turned down an offer from the Republican National Committee to monitor activities in those rooms for the sake of transparency, according to the source.

Ballots arrive at Central Count in sealed envelopes with a witness signature, then emerge from the restricted area in sealed envelopes, according to election attorney Daniel Eastman. But “there’s not a real clear chain of custody between ballots that are showing up on election day for tabulation,” he said.