{"id":12943,"date":"2024-09-26T00:05:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12943"},"modified":"2024-09-26T16:59:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T16:59:43","slug":"wisconsin-republican-calls-for-investigation-into-2000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-madison-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=12943","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Republican Calls for Investigation into 2,000 Duplicate Ballots Sent to Madison Voters"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-republican-calls-for-investigation-into-2000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-madison-voters\/jtnews\/2024\/09\/26\/<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n
by\u00a0Misty Severi<\/h5>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany on Wednesday called for a local investigation into how 2,215 duplicate ballots mistakenly went out to voters in the state\u2019s capital of Madison.<\/p>\n

Madison officials revealed the mistake on Tuesday but said that the duplicate ballots have the same barcode as the original ballots so they cannot be counted twice. The error occurred when officials accidentally merged two identical files, instead of merging two separate lists as intended,\u00a0according to Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n

Tiffany\u00a0sent a letter<\/a>\u00a0to Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl about an investigation, demanding \u201canswers and transparency\u201d on the incident, claiming it was not the first time that the state capital engaged in \u201cdubious\u201d and \u201ccontroversial\u201d election practices.<\/p>\n

\u201cVoters deserve clear answers regarding the full scope of this blunder, how the city plans to restore public confidence in its ability to accurately administer the election, and assurances that those responsible are held accountable,\u201d Tiffany wrote.<\/p>\n

He questioned Witzel-Behl on how the error occurred in the first place, whether any of the duplicate ballots have been returned to the clerk\u2019s office, and whether the clerk\u2019s office has identified the person who made the mistake.<\/p>\n

City officials claimed that the mistake was \u201chuman error,\u201d and told voters to destroy one of the ballots and use the other to vote. A total of 10 wards were affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cA mistake was made, the Clerk\u2019s Office moved swiftly to rectify the error and reassure voters, but there is NO possibility of a duplicate absentee ballot being counted,\u201d city spokesperson Dylan Brogan told Fox.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Brogan added that the city is reviewing Tiffany\u2019s letter and working on a formal response.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just The News. You can\u00a0<\/em>follow her on X<\/em><\/a>\u00a0for more coverage.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n
Reprinted with permission from Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
\n

The post Wisconsin Republican Calls for Investigation into 2,000 Duplicate Ballots Sent to Madison Voters<\/a> appeared first on The Wisconsin Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-republican-calls-for-investigation-into-2000-duplicate-ballots-sent-to-madison-voters\/jtnews\/2024\/09\/26\/ by\u00a0Misty Severi \u00a0 Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12944,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12943\/revisions\/12944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}