Missing Madison ballots 'unconscionable' and a 'profound failure,' Wisconsin Elections Commission finds
A Madison clerk committed “profound failure” that resulted in nearly 200 ballots going uncounted in last November’s election, and she displayed an “astonishing” lack of urgency in reporting and rectifying her mistakes, an investigation by the Wisconsin Elections Commission has found.
In a scathing report, a draft of which was released Wednesday, the commission found that former City of Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl oversaw a range of errors that resulted in 193 ballots going uncounted in the closely contested matchup between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Kamala Harris.
“These actions resulted in nearly 200 lawful voters’ votes going uncounted – an unconscionable result,” reads the report, which was coauthored by WEC Chair Ann Jacobs, a Democrat, and Commissioner Don Millis, a Republican. “This profound failure undermines public confidence in elections.”
Those actions included using insecure transport methods, not properly training poll workers, setting up confusing processes for counting absentee votes, and not alerting the commission after the missing ballots were discovered weeks after the election had been certified, the report states.
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