Allegations of election fraud have surfaced involving a former Green Bay school board member, who is now confronting serious felony charges related to his residency claims during his campaign for the upcoming April 2024 election.
Kou Lee, who resigned from the school board in May, is under scrutiny for reportedly campaigning from an address outside the district he was elected to represent. The Green Bay Press Gazette highlighted these concerns the day of his resignation, after Lee indicated he had moved to the district but declined to specify when the move occurred.
Allegations and Charges
Lee is charged with felony election fraud and felony false swearing. The criminal complaint alleges that Lee misrepresented his place of residence on his campaign documents, which is a violation of Wisconsin Election law.
The Green Bay Area Public School District has refrained from commenting on the issue, and Lee has not been available for comment either.
Residency Investigation
According to the complaint, investigators collected campaign filings from the city, which indicated an address on Enderby Lane in Green Bay as Lee’s residence. However, when police visited the site, the duplex owner informed them that Lee had never lived there.
The current resident of the Enderby Lane address confirmed they had lived there since 2022. Additionally, a neighbor from Hobart, adjacent to Lee’s actual home, reported seeing Lee frequently at the residence during the election period, with his children using a bus from the Pulaski School District.
Property records for 2024 further corroborated the Hobart residency, showing a tax bill addressed to Lee and his wife, along with a lottery tax credit that requires the property to be a primary residence.
Past Political Endeavors
Before his involvement with the school board, Lee attempted to secure a seat in the U.S. Senate during the 2022 elections, but did not advance beyond the Democratic primary.
After his resignation, community members expressed their concerns at a school board meeting, calling for increased transparency. “I do think it’s in the public’s best interest to make an effort to show retroactive transparency — to put out everything you knew, when you knew it, what you did,” Green Bay resident Eric Drzewiecki urged.
Lee’s first court appearance is slated for Nov. 19.
