WISCONSIN –New polling released by Marquette University Law School this week shows a strange dichotomy among Wisconsin voters regarding the way election officials adjudicate our elections. The topline: 79% trust local and state election officials to manage our elections over federal election officials despite many feeling that irregularities are more common than they are. The poll data shows that a significant number of Wisconsin voters believe these irregularities, like non-citizen or non-resident voting and election administrators submitting false vote counts, happen “sometimes or often.” In fact, the Wisconsin’s decentralized system makes it much more difficult to cheat in these ways.
The full poll release can be found here.
The Democracy Defense Project – Wisconsin Board, comprised of Former Attorney General JB Van Hollen, former Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, former U.S. Representative Scott Klug and former Democratic Party of Wisconsin Chair Mike Tate, released a statement reacting to the findings of the poll.
“The findings of Marquette Law’s latest poll show that while there are positive signs for faith in local election administrators, we have a long way to go before we will truly restore voter faith in the election process. Our clerks do a valiant job of thwarting fraud on a massive scale, employing double and triple checks of voter rolls and keeping paper ballot records of every vote cast for audits conducted after each and every election. While some of these numbers remain a cause for concern, there is movement in the right direction to end the conspiracies about our state’s election integrity in 2026.”
Published: Mar 26, 2026
