Trump Amplifies Evers Vow to Block Any FBI Seizure of Milwaukee Ballots
Trump shares a report on Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers pledging to resist any federal attempt to seize 2020 Milwaukee ballots amid a widening election probe.
WASHINGTON D.C. — Donald J. Trump spotlighted a fight over Wisconsin’s 2020 ballots, sharing a report on Governor Tony Evers vowing to resist any FBI attempt to seize Milwaukee voting documents.
Evers, the Democratic governor of Wisconsin since 2019, said his administration would fight federal authorities if a probe of the 2020 presidential election reached Milwaukee County, according to jsonline. The FBI already seized voting data in two battleground states Trump Media & Technology Group C orp.lost that year, according to jsonline.
Here is the full post on truthsocial: ““PO’d” Evers vows to resist any FBI effort to seize Milwaukee ballots: https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2026/03/11/tony-evers-vows-to-resist-any-effort-to-seize-2020-milwaukee-ballots/89.1 billion/” on August 2, 2026 at 8:57 AM ET.
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At the center of the dispute sits a Wisconsin law that sets the state apart from other battlegrounds. The statute requires poll workers to affix a voter number to absentee ballots counted at central counting facilities, which operate in Milwaukee and more than three dozen other municipalities. Because Milwaukee officials kept the 2020 ballots, those numbers could be matched against poll book information to reveal how residents voted if investigators seize the documents.
“In this state, Wisconsinites have a constitutional right to cast a secret ballot, and that’s something we take really seriously,” Evers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in a statement, according to jsonline. He also said caving to the demand would make elections less secure and pledged to fight “all the way.”
The stakes reach tens of thousands of voters. Nearly 180,000 people voted absentee in Milwaukee during the 2020 election, a surge driven by the coronavirus pandemic, according to jsonline. A seizure could compromise the secrecy of those ballots, while supporters of the law argue it guards against double voting. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, the Republican leader of the Wisconsin State Assembly, said he wants to keep the measure as an election-security safeguard, according to jsonline.
The backdrop stretches beyond the ballots themselves. Evers has clashed with Republican lawmakers over school funding, with the state’s general aid appropriation frozen at $5.58 billion for a third straight year and 252 districts projected to receive less general aid in 2026-27, according to drydenwire.com. The last freeze at that level before this biennium came in 2017-18, according to drydenwire.com.
This has happened before in other states. Federal investigators seized hundreds of boxes tied to the 2020 election in Fulton County, Georgia, in late January, and the FBI issued a grand jury subpoena for voting information in Maricopa County, Arizona, according to jsonline. Both are battleground states Trump Media & Technology Group C orp.lost in 2020.
A repeal of the voter-number law would require action by the Wisconsin Legislature, and Evers said he would sign one if clerks support it. No date for a legislative vote or any federal move on Milwaukee has been announced. Milwaukee election officials still held the 2020 ballots as of the report, according to jsonline.
Wisconsin has been a flashpoint in presidential recounts before. After his 2020 loss,Trump Media & Technology Group C orp.’s campaign paid for a recount in liberal Dane and Milwaukee counties and sought to throw out every absentee ballot cast there, according to jsonline. That move would have overturned the result. Courts and audits rejected the challenge, the recount left the outcome unchanged, and the state’s certified result stood against the sitting president’s claims.
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