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Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany is demanding an immediate investigation after 2,215 duplicate absentee ballots were mailed out to voters.
His call for an investigation comes after Madison city officials admitted to the error this week.
“This was a mistake,” city spokesperson Dylan Brogan told the Associated Press. “On the day we found out a clerical error occurred, we immediately reached out to voters.”
He added that safeguards are in place to ensure that the duplicate ballots aren’t counted.
“Despite duplicate ballots being sent out, we will only accept one ballot from every voter, and when we get them back we will make sure that we only have one ballot,” Madison City Deputy Clerk Jim Verbick added in a statement to local station WKOW.
There’s just one problem. Whereas city officials originally claimed the ballots were distributed to only one ward, this has since been updated to 10 wards. Tiffany isn’t happy about this.
“There needs to be an independent investigation now, not after the election,” he tweeted Wednesday.
🚨BREAKING: The City of Madison clerk said the duplicate absentee ballots were sent to one ward yesterday.
Now, they say it’s 10.
There needs to be an independent investigation now, not after the election.
— Rep. Tom Tiffany (@RepTiffany) September 25, 2024
“This can’t just be swept under the rug,” he added in a statement to Fox News. “The people responsible for this need to be held accountable.”
To that end, he’s written a letter to Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl demanding “answers and transparency.”
In the letter he demands to know how the “error” was discovered, whether law enforcement has been contacted, who made the “error,” which wards were affected, and more.
“Given the history of controversial and legally dubious election practices carried out by Madison officials in the past – and your own personal history as an operative for the left-wing, ‘Zuckerbucks’ financed Center for Tech and Civic Life – I don’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 happen at such a pivotal time,” he wrote.
“Voters deserve clear answers regarding the full scope of this blunder, how the city plans to restore public confidence in its ability to accurately administer the election, and assurances that those responsible are held accountable,” he added…
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