The City of Racine was forced to a second set of ballots to some voters after mistakenly leaving off a municipal judge race.
The City of Racine was forced to send a second set of mail-in ballots to some voters after a municipal judge race was mistakenly left off the first set.
The race, featuring Judge Rob Weber, was left off ballots printed through the Racine County Clerk’s Office. The city did not have an opportunity to view the ballots before sending them to voters and mailed a second set featuring Weber’s race once the mistake was discovered.
This mix-up happened just days after the City of Green Bay sent duplicate ballots to 152 voters. City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys confirmed the duplicates stemmed from a processing mistake. Officials claimed they would audit returns to prevent double-counting, but the error prompted immediate questions from voters and lawmakers about safeguards in the system.
Congressman Tom Tiffany, the presumptive Republican gubernatorial nominee, called for immediate reform.
The duplicate ballots in Racine were also received just days after a man from Racine County was convicted of election fraud for requesting ballots in the name of Racine Mayor Cory Mason and Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
Harry Wait, 71, was convicted on two charges of misdemeanor election fraud and one count of identity theft on March 25th. He maintained that he requested the ballots of prominent politicians to showcase how easily voter fraud could be perpetrated.
