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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-25T17:11:52.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Elections",
    "Election Fraud",
    "Wisconsin",
    "2020 election",
    "voter fraud",
    "Identity Theft",
    "justice",
    "United States",
    "Republicans",
    "Republican Party",
    "maga",
    "found guilty",
    "exceedingly rare",
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  "textContent": "In a failed attempt to prevent voter fraud, a Wisconsin man was convicted of … voter fraud.\n\nHarry Wait, a 71-year-old MAGA loyalist, was found guilty of election fraud and identity theft in Racine County, Wisconsin, on Tuesday. In 2022, he admitted to unlawfully requesting the ballots of Republican state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Democratic Racine Mayor Cory Mason, which he claims proves how easy it is to commit voter fraud.\n\nHe was charged with two misdemeanor election fraud charges and one felony identity theft charge.\n\nThe retired consultant is the leader of H.O.T Government, a Wisconsin group that aims “to hold public officials and institutions accountable to the people they serve.” The group claims both Wisconsin and federal elections are riddled with fraud, and it unwaveringly maintains that President Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Trump lost Wisconsin by more than 20,000 votes.\n\nWait has spent years mobilizing against Wisconsin’s state website that allows voters to order mail-in ballots, the same one he used to feign the identities of Vos and Mason.\n\nHis conviction comes as Trump and the GOP desperately try to pass the SAVE Act, a bill that would supposedly prevent voter fraud (which is exceedingly rare), but in reality would disenfranchise millions of marginalized voters.\n\n“It’s not about me. It’s about the republic,” Wait said during the trial. His actions have garnered praise among Republicans. At rallies, supporters across Wisconsin have worn “Free Harry Wait” T-shirts, and in 2022, Senator Ron Johnson called Wait a “white hat hacker.”\n\n“I would do it again,” Wait told WTMJ following the verdict.",
  "title": "MAGA Election Fraud Activist Found Guilty of Election Fraud"
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