Gregory J. Haanstad, Election Integrity, Wisconsin 2022

Election officials at work
Madison, WI – In a bid to protect the integrity of the 2022 elections, U.S. Attorneys Gregory J. Haanstad and Timothy M. O’Shea announced the appointment of four Assistant U.S. Attorneys (AUSAs) to lead their offices’ efforts in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program.

AUSAs Christopher Ladwig and Philip Kovoor have been appointed to serve as the District Election Officers (DEOs) for the Eastern District, and AUSAs Daniel Graber and Meredith Duchemin have been appointed to serve as the District Election Officers (DEOs) for the Western District. These AUSAs are responsible for overseeing their Districts’ handling of election day complaints of voting rights concerns, threats of violence to election officials or staff, and election fraud, in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington.

The Department of Justice has an important role in deterring and combatting discrimination and intimidation at the polls, threats of violence directed at election officials and poll workers, and election fraud. The Department will address these violations wherever they occur. The Department’s longstanding Election Day Program furthers these goals and also seeks to ensure public confidence in the electoral process by providing local points of contact within the Department for the public to report possible federal election law violations.

Federal law protects against such crimes as threatening violence against election officials or staff, intimidating or bribing voters, buying and selling votes, impersonating voters, altering vote tallies, stuffing ballot boxes, and marking ballots for voters against their wishes or without their input.

The AUSAs/DEOs may be reached by the public at the following numbers: AUSA/DEO Ladwig at 414-297-4103, AUSA/DEO Kovoor at 414-297-1721, AUSA/DEO Graber at 608-250-5468, and AUSA/DEO Duchemin at 608-250-5496.

In addition, the FBI will have special agents available in each field office and resident agency throughout the country to receive allegations of election fraud and other election abuses on election day. The local FBI field office can be reached by the public at 414-276-4684, option 7.

The public can also report possible violations of the federal voting rights laws directly to the Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C. by phone at 800-253-3931 or by complaint form at https://civilrights.justice.gov.

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