{"id":15670,"date":"2025-03-06T21:20:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15670"},"modified":"2025-03-06T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T22:57:45","slug":"voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=15670","title":{"rendered":"Voters Sue Over Uncounted Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/06\/voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots\">https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/06\/voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-uncounted-ballots-lawsuit-e9cbf8b31d879a0460194090f5d47f48\">Since WEC is incapable of holding election officials accountable<\/a> for their incompetence or malfeasance, voters will have to do it through the courts.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>MADISON, Wis. (AP) \u2014 Four Wisconsin voters whose ballots\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-election-2024-uncounted-ballots-9493a3b575705d9447af55699ab8c0a2\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">were not counted<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the November presidential election initiated a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking $175,000 in damages each.<\/p>\n<p>The voters were among 193 in Madison whose ballots were misplaced by the city clerk and not discovered until weeks after the election. Not counting the ballots didn\u2019t affect the result of any races.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Elections Commission investigated but did not determine whether Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl failed to comply with state law or abused her discretion.<\/p>\n<p>She didn\u2019t notify the elections commission of the problem until December, almost a month and a half after the election and after the results were certified on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to reinforce and strengthen the right to vote in Wisconsin, said attorney Jeff Mandell, who is general counsel of Law Forward, which filed claims against the city of Madison and Dane County on Thursday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.bootsandsabers.com\/2025\/03\/06\/voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=voters-sue-over-uncounted-ballots Since WEC is incapable of holding election officials accountable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boots-sabers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15671,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15670\/revisions\/15671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}