Midterm Elections Updates: Complaint Charges Milwaukee Election Official With Fraud

The latest on the midterm elections.
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Complaint Charges Milwaukee Election Official With Fraud
A former Milwaukee elections official charged Friday with sending fake military ballots to a Republican legislator told investigators she did it because she wanted to expose real vulnerabilities in Wisconsin elections, according to a criminal complaint.
Prosecutors charged Kimberly Zapata, who was fired earlier this week, with felony misconduct in office and three misdemeanor counts of election fraud. She could face up to five years behind bars if convicted of all four counts. Her attorney, Michael Maistelman, declined comment.
The charges come just four days ahead of Election Day and as election officials are increasingly concerned about threats from within their own agencies. Officials in battleground states like Wisconsin are seeing record numbers of partisan poll worker nominations that could land skeptics on the front lines of polling places….}