Wait has never denied ordering ballots from the commission’s website MyVoteWi.com; he says he did so to expose grave concerns with the integrity of the Wisconsin voting system, not to commit election fraud. Wait was determined to demonstrate how easily a fraudulent absentee ballot could be obtained in Wisconsin, which he did by ordering from the website with no more than a name and birthdate of the parties for which he received ballots.
Those parties included eight friends of Wait who gave him permission to do so; one in the name Robin Vos, the Republican state assembly speaker; and one in the name of Democrat Racine Mayor Corey Mason.
Wait went so far as to proactively provide all of the evidence necessary to prosecute himself to the Racine County Sheriff’s Office — which at the time declined to press charges given what Wait’s simple actions had uncovered about the security of Wisconsin’s election system.