Clerk’s Error Invalidates Small Town’s Primary Vote – IOTW Report

Clerk’s Error Invalidates Small Town’s Primary Vote

AP

A local election clerk failed to realize that Wisconsin’s new legislative maps moved a rural town into a new district, leading to an administrative error that could disenfranchise scores of voters in a Republican state Assembly primary race.

The new maps shifted Summit, a town of about 1,000 people in Douglas County in far northern Wisconsin, out of the 73rd Assembly District and into the 74th District. But voters in Summit received ballots for the primary in the 73rd rather than the primary in the 74th, city clerk Kaci Jo Lundgren said in a news release issued Tuesday afternoon. More

10 Comments on Clerk’s Error Invalidates Small Town’s Primary Vote

  1. There was a lot of back and forth this last year redrawing the district lines. The dem Governor Evers got his way when we lost the state supreme court to the progressives.

    I can understand a person not keeping up, but not on the failure of someone to double check.

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  2. @fuah:

    errors can’t be fixed?

    Not this kind, not unless all of the erroneously given ballots are identifiable so that they can be deleted. Ballots certainly cannot be associated with individual voters, and it is extremely unlikely that all the Summit ballots can be segregated from the rest of them. And even so, then there’s the matter of giving Summit voters the correct ballots and de-certifying the results and adding in the new votes. Ain’t gonna happen, probably because CAN’T happen.

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  3. Hanlon’s Razor:
    Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

    Progressive’s Razor:
    Make sure your malicious intent adequately resembles stupidity.

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