A Wisconsin official says an FBI agent visited the director of elections at his home
NEWNow you can listen to Fox News articles!
A Wisconsin county clerk says an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation tried to interview the county election director where he lives and issued a statement defending the state’s management of the 2020 presidential election.
“I can confirm that a representative of the Federal Bureau of Investigation visited my Director of Elections’ home and left his business card,” Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson said in a statement Thursday morning.
“We will be following up to determine the nature of this visit. It is unfortunate that the FBI chose to visit the private residence of the Milwaukee County Elections Director rather than contact the Election Commission office directly. No dedicated public servant should be subject to that type of intrusion just for the sake of fulfilling their duties with integrity and professionalism.”
Christenson went on to defend the state’s handling of the 2020 presidential election as “fair and transparent” and said “this has been proven time and time again over the past six years by the post-election campaign, the Presidential Election Recount, the challenge based on the State courts, the challenge based on the State courts, the audit by Wisconsin’s Legislative Bureau on the two additional Audit Auditors. resolved questions do not strengthen the public’s confidence in the election but it is humiliating.”
DOJ SITTING DEFENDERS AFTER TRUMP’S BREAK IN BATTLEGROUND-STATE BALLOT FIGHT
An FBI agent and a Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officer arrest a man near the White House on Farragut Square Path in Washington, DC, United States, on September 15, 2025. (Photo by Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu via Getty Images)
“While we cooperate with all legal actions, we will defend against any attack on our democracy and we will protect the rights of the voters of Milwaukee County,” Christenson wrote. “Our responsibility as election officials is to protect the integrity of the process through the use of facts, transparency, and compliance with the law, and the record clearly shows that those standards were met in 2020.”
Christenson went on to suggest that the FBI’s actions were “an attack on democracy.”
TRUMP ACCUSES SCHUMER OF TRYING TO ‘DIFFER IN OUR ELECTIONS’ WITH LATEST STRATEGY.
The FBI declined to comment.
Milwaukee County, the state’s largest county, has been the target of conservatives alleging impropriety in the 2020 election, and the FBI has been working across the country to investigate issues of election integrity.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX NEWS PROGRAM
FBI Director Kash Patel spoke at a press conference at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)
In January, it searched the Fulton County Georgia primary polling place in Union City, near Atlanta, and focused on records connected to the 2020 general election after obtaining a court search warrant. Fox Atlanta report.
The underlying affidavit revealed that the office was investigating allegations of vote irregularities and record-keeping failures in Georgia, a state President Donald Trump lost in a razor-thin blage to President Joe Biden that became the basis for Trump’s post-2020 fraud claims.
In March, the FBI subpoenaed the 2020 voting documents in Arizona. Several US officials have confirmed the election investigation to Fox News, saying the DOJ is looking at a large collection of Arizona data from 2020 and 2024.
Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.
