Here we go afterwards. Another election year for president and more voter controversies in Wisconsin’s far-left capital city in swing position.  ,
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., demanded responses from Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl as to how more than 2, 200 citizens in the communist area were recently sent record absentee ballots. The town clerk’s office announced earlier this week in a statement that it is “rectifying a data processing problem.” The situation has been resolved, according to a city official, and there are” safeguards” in place to stop double election. The principal’s office also released an apology to the people affected.  ,
While Madison election officials claim that the error only affected” an secluded number of voters” and that it was “quickly caught” and fixed, it comes as Badger State’s campaign for election integrity advocates worry about a duplicate of the 2020 election’s outcome. Election authorities in Wisconsin and Democrat-led places like Madison defied the rules and raised numerous issues with election integrity when they delivered decisive votes to Democrat political member Joe Biden, who won over then-President Donald Trump in Wisconsin by less than 21, 000 seats.  ,
I do n’t have to tell you how important it is for the city to provide full transparency regarding how an “error” of this magnitude was allowed to occur at such a crucial time, Tiffany, Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District representative, wrote in a letter sent to the city clerk on Tuesday.  ,
Witzel-Behl was a driving force behind CTCL‘s agreement with the city of Madison, one of the so-called” Wisconsin 5” towns, in the 2020 elections, and she is a member of the left-wing group’s expert committee, according to volunteer monitor InfluenceWatch.  ,
Issues relating to the” Error”
Tiffany wrote in his letter that he was “alarmed” to learn about the record ballots just as Wisconsin’s extended absentee ballot season began.  ,
” The Clerk’s Office has since issued a six-sentence speech claiming, without providing any important details, that this’ mistake’ affected’ an secluded number of voters’ in a single ward and ‘ was immediately caught and corrected,'” the congressman wrote.  ,
He included a number of follow-up questions and wanted to know:  ,
- How was this “error” discovered?
- Has the Clerk’s Office contacted law enforcement to find out whether this “error” was the result of deliberate nefarious acts or just plain incompetence?
- Has the Clerk’s Office identified the person or people responsible for this “error”?
- Has the Clerk’s Office taken steps to preserve all emails, internal communications, handwritten notes, and other records related to this “error”?
- How many copies of the Clerk’s Office’s ballots were actually distributed?
- The Clerk’s Office claims that this “error” affected voters in only one ward. Which region was it?
- Has the Clerk’s Office done any due diligence to make sure that this “error” was n’t limited to just one ward in response to reports of duplicate ballots in other wards?
- Have any of these duplicate ballots been returned to the Clerk’s Office, and if so, have they been set aside pending an investigation?
Voters deserve answers that are completely transparent about the scope of this error, how the city intends to restore public confidence in its ability to conduct the election with accuracy, and assurances that those responsible are held accountable, according to the letter.  ,
A mistake was made, it was made.
In an interview late on Wednesday afternoon, Dylan Brogan, communications manager for the city, said that” a mistake was made” and that the error would” not result in any ballots being counted twice.” On Wednesday evening, the city released a letter-to-the-madison-clerks-office” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>response to Tiffany’s letter, attaching a letter apologizing and explaining to the affected voters what happened. In the letter-to-the-madison-clerks-office” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>response, Witzel-Behl asserts that the clerk’s office has” adjusted … pre-election procedures to prevent this mistake from happening again”.
” This was a simple data processing error made by one of the many dedicated, professional staff who work for the City …”, the clerk wrote in the response, barely disguising apparent disdain for Tiffany’s questions.
According to Brogan, 215 voters in various city wards requested the same kind of ballot because the duplicate ballots were distributed. A voter list with names and addresses was merged with the same list as a result of “human error,” according to the city official. Brogan added that election officials “double-checked” to determine no other voters were affected. According to the letter, the voters reside on the city’s east side in Assembly District 78 and the Madison Metropolitan School District. Witzel-Behl asks the voters to “destroy one of the two ballots” received.
” Absentee voters in a number of wards received duplicate ballots. Because the affected ballots were contained in a single file with header code 41, the affected ballots. The header code is located in the upper right corner of the ballot, which is unique to the offices on the ballot and the neighborhoods that receive it in that manner. The 2, 215 affected ballots with that header code were located in the following wards: 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15″, the response to Tiffany states.
City officials insist that there are measures in place to prevent double voting, including barcodes on the ballots. On the ballot envelope, according to Witzel-Behl, “barcodes used across the state and the country are printed with the statewide voter registration system” and “are used everywhere.”
They can be scanned in once received by a Clerk’s office because they are unique to each individual voter and printed on the absentee ballot return envelope. This statewide system guarantees accountability and allows voters to determine whether their ballot was received by the clerk’s office, the clerk wrote.
She urged the congressman to “elect by humans and occasionally human error occurs” as a way of concluding. The clerk then lamented that “attacks that seek to undermine the confidence of voters in our election results” have made the job of elections officials all the more difficult. In other words, criticism from those who have the temerity to question how elections are conducted and the political motivations of clerks who are supposed to be nonpartisan.
Democracy in the Park is a phrase.
But Madison, Wisconsin’s second-largest city dominated by Democrats, has had its share of election integrity troubles.  ,
In the fall of 2020, Madison hosted the” Democracy in the Park” ballot harvesting campaign. More than 10,000 absentee ballots were cast in one Saturday in late September alone, according to local news outlet The Capital Times, which contributed to the contentious event, which was organized under the guise of Covid mitigation. In total, over two days, an army of poll workers stationed at parks across the city collected an estimated 17, 000 ballots.  ,
Republicans made a feeble attempt to challenge. Michael Haas, a leftist who previously served as the state’s elections administrator and played a key role in Wisconsin’s unconstitutional John Doe investigations that unlawfully targeted conservative activists, told the GOP to go pound sand.  ,
The City will proceed with Democracy in the Park without the assistance of a court or the Wisconsin Elections Commission, and it will proceed with the collection of absentee ballots in accordance with Wisconsin statutes,” Haas reportedly told the Capital Times in late September 2020.  ,
The Trump campaign , later argued to have the thousands of ballots removed, according to reports, but the Dane County Board of Canvassers rejected the campaign’s argument.  ,
Madison also played a starring role in the 2020″ Zuckbucks” scandal. The Center for Tech in Civic Life, a leftist activist group funded by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, received hundreds of millions of dollars from the leftist group, ostensibly as funding for the election administration. The leftist cities of Madison, Milwaukee, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine, dubbed the” Wisconsin 5″, received the lion’s share of Wisconsin’s grant money, substantial portions of which were used in get-out-the-vote efforts targeting Democrat-leaning voters.  ,
As The Federalist previously reported, a sizable majority of Wisconsin voters earlier this year voted in favor of a statewide ballot question outlawing private funding in election administration.  ,
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The Federalist’s senior elections correspondent, Matt Kittle, is. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.
