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

[BumRushDaShow]

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.

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Sweet, another nasty nutcase believing that he's a hero.

[JT45242]

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

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]

3. @ 71 just doing 1 or 2 years could be fatal

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

[AZ8theist]

18. GOOD!

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

Nasty vermin these MAGATS are......

[Botany]

20. And @ the end of the day just about all of them are driven by racism and hatred of smart people.

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]

4. So, if it was so easy to commit fraud

why did he get caught?

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

[Initech]

5. No one does mental conditioning quite like the Fox News MAGA party.

[William Seger]

6. True fact: If Republicans really did reduce voter fraud, they'd be hurting themselves

Unfortunately, their objective is to reduce Democratic votes.

[SergeStorms]

7. There's no fool....

like an old fool.

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

[Martin68]

8. The system didn't fail. He was convicted. What a moron.

[Scalded Nun]

9. Holy Shit!!!! Voter fraud running rampant and perpetrators openly proud of doing so!!

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.

[City Lights]

10. 99.9% of voter fraud is carried out by Republicans.

I am so sick of all of them.

[bluestarone]

11. This party ( rethuglicon party) is the party GUILTY of everything that

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

[BumRushDaShow]

12. AND the "FEMA Camps".

[AZ8theist]

19. EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION

This is a proven fact.

[BidenRocks]

13. Dibs on his bar stool!

He won't be needing it!
OPE!

[Aussie105]

14. What a hero!

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

Harry wins!

Go Harry! (Straight to jail.)

[Figarosmom]

15. The system didn't fail

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]

16. I've been following this from here in Wisconsin.

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]

17. It's one of them just about every time.

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

What a world.

[wolfie001]

21. Bear? Ha! How 'bout slob

I hope he ends up in prison.