Wisconsin's Changing November 2020 Vote History
Nine official WEC voter databases, 2023–2026, compared against the state's reported ballot total June 4, 2026 • Data analysis by: Steve Hufton
Executive Summary
Between February 2023 and May 2026, nine complete snapshots of Wisconsin's statewide voter registration database (WisVote) were purchased directly from the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC). Every snapshot is the ALL list: active and inactive registrants together. For each snapshot, the number of voter records carrying a participation mark (“Absentee” or “At Polls”) for the November 3, 2020 General Election was counted and compared to the official ballot total Wisconsin reported to the federal Election Assistance Commission: 3,308,331 ballots cast.1
That number should be a fixed historical fact. It is not. Across the nine snapshots, the count of Wisconsinites credited with voting in November 2020 fell by 43,870 records between May and August 2024, then rose by 106,898 records by May 2026. As of the May 2026 database, Wisconsin's official voter list credits 3,379,178 people with voting in an election in which the state says 3,308,331 ballots were cast, a surplus of 70,847 voters over ballots.
No routine explanation survives WEC's own public statements. In recorded testimony before the Legislature's elections committee, WEC Administrator Wolfe and Deputy Administrator Kehoe stated that records are never deleted from the statewide list.2 Because every snapshot includes inactive voters, list maintenance cannot reduce these counts either. Only one mechanism remains: the November 2020 participation history on tens of thousands of existing records was modified inside the system of record, years after the election, at minimum roughly 150,000 gross field changes between 2024 and 2026. This report does not allege who made these changes or why. It establishes, from WEC's own data products and WEC's own testimony, that they occurred, and that WEC must explain who modified federal election participation records in 2024–2026, under what authority, and with what audit trail.
U.S. Election Assistance Commission, Election Administration and Voting Survey (EAVS), 2020, Wisconsin: total ballots cast, 3,308,331. The EAVS figure is self-reported to the EAC by the Wisconsin Elections Commission. 2 Recorded testimony of WEC Administrator Wolfe and Deputy Administrator Kehoe before the Wisconsin Legislature's elections committee, stating that records are never deleted from the statewide voter list. 1
The Hufton Files • June 4, 2026
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