According to the complaint:

Gruenke received an email on May 2, 2011, alleging that Malszycki had committed voter fraud in Onalaska during the 2010 election. In a Nov. 2, 2010, Facebook post, she wrote that she had just voted for the Republican slate of candidates. She posted on Nov. 20, 2010, that she was headed home to Madison the next day.

Malszycki’s neighbor in Madison, former Dane County Sup. Patrick DePula, questioned her ability to vote in Onalaska, and Malszycki responded that she voted in Onalaska because she was living there.

But on May 11, 2011, Malszycki admitted to police that she lives in Madison, where she owns a home. She said, however, that she had been living with her parents in Onalaska and working on a campaign during the 2010 election.

Malszycki told police that she didn’t think she had done anything wrong and that poll workers had allowed her to register and vote after her mother signed her registration form acknowledging that she had been living in Onalaska.

The state Government Accountability Board told the State Journal in 2011 that under state law a person who moves to another location for a temporary purpose is not eligible to vote there and should vote in his or her home precinct.

Be the first to know Get local news delivered to your inbox! Sign up! * I understand and agree that registration on or use of this site constitutes agreement to its user agreement and privacy policy.