Michael Gableman, the Republicans' special counsel, claims to have found "absurd" levels of voter participation among nursing home residents in 2020 but has declined to provide proof.
In a three-hour presentation earlier this month on his investigation into the November 2020 election, Michael Gableman, the conservative former state Supreme Court Justice and special counsel to Republican lawmakers, aired videos of interviews with eight voters who appeared to be in no condition to have cast an absentee ballot.
Election 2020 turnout for Dane County nursing homes
In his report on the 2020 election, former Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman asserted, without providing proof, that 100% of registered voters in Dane County nursing homes cast absentee ballots that year. Here are the number of ballots the Wisconsin State Journal could confirm were cast at each nursing home that year, compared to the number of registered voters at each facility:
Badger Prairie Health Care Center, 1100 E. Verona Ave., town of Verona: 32/39 (82%)
Capitol Lakes Health Center, 333 W. Main St., Madison (includes independent living): 82/90 (91%)
Crossroads Care Center of Sun Prairie, 41 Rickel Road, Sun Prairie: 5/12 (42%)
Four Winds Manor, 303 S. Jefferson St., city of Verona: 13/22 (59%)
Heartland Country Village, 634 Center St., Black Earth: 7/11 (64%)
Ingleside Manor, 407 N. Eighth St., Mount Horeb: 16/32 (50%)
Nazareth Health and Rehab Center, 814 Jackson St., Stoughton: 12/12 (100%)
Oak Park Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 718 Jupiter Drive, Madison: 10/15 (67%)
Oak Park Place of Nakoma,* 4327 Nakoma Road, Madison: 14/16 (88%)
Oakwood Lutheran Homes Association, 6201 Mineral Point Road, Madison: 14/19 (74%)
Oakwood Village East Health and Rehabilitation Center, Madison: 2/3 (67%)/
Oregon Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, 354 N. Main St., Oregon: 10/17 (59%)
Skaalen Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, 400 N. Morris, Stoughton: 41/49 (84%)
SSM Health St. Mary's Care Center, 3401 Maple Grove Drive, Madison: 51/64 (80%)
Sun Prairie Health Care Center,* 228 W. Main St., Sun Prairie: 17/25 (68%)
The Bay at Belmont Health and Rehabilitation Center, 110 Belmont Road, Madison: 24/31 (77%)
The Villa at Middleton Village, 6201 Elmwood Ave., Middleton: 8/15 (53%)
Waunakee Manor Health Care Center,* 801 S. Klein Dr., Waunakee: 26/30 (87%)
Michael Gableman, the Republicans' special counsel, claims to have found "absurd" levels of voter participation among nursing home residents in 2020 but has declined to provide proof.
