Wisconsin Election Officials Blame Bernie Sanders for Minors Illegally Voting in 2016 – IOTW Report

Wisconsin Election Officials Blame Bernie Sanders for Minors Illegally Voting in 2016

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Wisconsin election officials last week in part blamed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I., Vt.) failed presidential campaign for 17-year-olds illegally voting in the state’s 2016 presidential primary.

A Wisconsin Elections Commission report found that up to 70 teenagers voted illegally in about 30 of the state’s counties during the April primaries, the Associated Press reported. Wisconsin requires voters to be 18 to vote in its primaries.

The commission report only alluded to “some political campaigns” relaying the false message that 17-year-olds could vote, but officials last Tuesday specifically called out Sanders’ campaign for being responsible through its social media outreach.

Sanders’ campaign “blurred the differences” between state laws, some of which allow 17-year-olds who will be 18 by Election Day to vote, according to commission chairman Mark Thomsen.

“It’s your obligation to tell your campaign people and the voters what the rules are in your jurisdiction,” Thomsen said.  more here

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