The FBI sent agents to knock on the doors of people who worked the polls in 2020 in Milwaukee under the direction of Cash Patel.
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Badlands MediaSep 16, 2026
Multiple sources report that FBI agents, under FBI Director Kash Patel, made unannounced home visits in the Milwaukee area in 2026 as part of a probe into the 2020 election, including visits to a 2020 Milwaukee poll worker (David Bolter) and to election officials.
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… The Justice Department wrote a letter to Michigan demanding that they turn over all their evidence relating to the 2024 election in Wayne County, Michigan. The FBI, under Cash Patel, sent agents to knock on the doors of people who worked the polls in 2020 in Milwaukee. We saw a second executive order, which we're going to spend a lot of time talking about today, seeking to radically alter how mail about mail voting was done in the state, seeking to seize power away from the states where constitutionally resides and have it …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Supports. The Washington Post, as relayed by AP and others, reports that FBI agents visited the private homes of current and former Wisconsin election officials under Kash Patel's FBI.[1][2][3]
Supports. Votebeat reporting, as relayed by Alternet, says FBI agents arrived at David Bolter's Milwaukee home in late May 2026; Bolter was a 2020 poll worker who had raised concerns about the election.[4][5]
Supports. Tag24 reports that agents appeared unannounced at the home of Milwaukee County elections director Michelle Hawley and then visited other officials' homes, with the visits attributed to FBI Director Kash Patel.[6]
Supports. Wisconsin Watch and WISN confirm that the FBI contacted multiple current and former Milwaukee election officials and police officers about the 2020 election.[7][8]
Context. Critics describe the visits as intimidation and the reported questions concern long-debunked 2020 fraud theories; the sources do not describe any poll-worker visit beyond those reported in the probe.[1][3][9]
Sources
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- 1Kash Patel Sends Agents to Election Officials' Homes in Wisconsinthedailybeast.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 2Kash Patel's FBI Sent Agents to Election Officials' Homes in Wisconsinyahoo.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 3Kash Patel's FBI Sent Agents to the Homes of Wisconsin Election Officials, Chasing Debunked 2020 Conspiracy Theoriesthetrumptracker.com · not rated · cited for: supports, context
- 4What really drove Trump's Big Lie — and why we're about to find outalternet.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5FBI interview covers poll worker's complaintwislawjournal.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 6FBI Director Kash Patel sends agents to election officials' homes in Wisconsintag24.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 7What we know about the FBI’s Wisconsin elections probewisconsinwatch.org · not rated · cited for: supports
- 8FBI questions several Milwaukee police officers about ...wisn.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 9Wisconsin elections chair wants state to speed destruction of ... - WPRwpr.org · not rated · cited for: context
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