Marcey Patterson, a former Community Relations Engagement and Recruitment Director for the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD), has been slapped with a felony election fraud charge after investigators discovered she voted illegally in at least 12 separate elections while living outside the city she claimed as her residence.
Court documents obtained by Spectrum News 1 show Patterson hadn’t lived in Milwaukee since 2018, yet she continued to cast ballots in city elections through 2025, all while listing her mother’s Milwaukee address on her registration forms.
Even worse, she used that false address to illegally pocket thousands in taxpayer-funded residency pay incentives from the police department.
Patterson, hired in 2022, was entitled to a 3% residency pay boost, but only if she actually lived in Milwaukee. She didn’
Records confirm she lived in Glendale and later in Brown Deer, yet she knowingly pocketed $8,226.78 in inflated paychecks based on the fraudulent claim.
Despite living outside the city, Patterson kept showing up at the Samuel Clemens School polling station in Milwaukee, signing her name in the poll books for election after election, including the November 2024 and April 2025 contests.t.
When confronted, Patterson admitted she used her mother’s address as her “permanent residence,” but also conceded that her real home, the one where she slept, worked, and raised her son was outside the city. Yet she kept voting in Milwaukee anyway.
Under Wisconsin law, voting without proper residency qualifications is a felony punishable by up to 3.5 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Patterson also faces consequences for falsely registering to vote and making false statements to election officials.
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