A roll of "I voted" stickers is ready for voters at Union Congregational Church in Green Bay during the spring primary election Feb. 15, 2022. PC: Fox 11 Online
GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — With the polls open in Wisconsin, the City of Green Bay is giving updates throughout the day on how the spring election is going.
City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys held the first media briefing of the day at 10:30 a.m.
Last week it was discovered 152 Green Bay voters were mistakenly sent two absentee ballots. Jeffreys said her office is ensuring votes do not get counted twice, but the incident has some voters asking questions about election fraud.
The city sent notices to all individuals who received a duplicate ballot and has a system in place to ensure that each voter has only one ballot tabulated.
As of Monday, 4,985 of the 6,429 sent absentee ballots have been returned. Of the returned ballots, 116 are from voters who received a duplicate ballot. Of those returned, one duplicate ballot pair was received. The Clerk’s office communicated with that voter and the voter requested their ballots be spoiled. They were then issued a new ballot.
All ballots received by the Clerk’s Office on Election Day will be processed after all prior received ballots are opened at central count. The Clerk’s office will continue to check each returned ballot against the list of 152 voters that received a duplicate. If any duplicate envelope is received on Election Day, it will be identified for the Board of Absentee Ballot Canvassers and be properly handled.
“We have a lot of checks and balances in Wisconsin law, all states do, and Wisconsin especially so those checks and balances and those redundancies happen at Central Count as well at polls. So I would just guide people to the fact that we have many eyes on the process, it’s not just one person or two people and there are many ways we have to check a voter in, give a unique voter number, both at Central Count and at polls so we can ensure there’s only one ballot cast per voter,” Jeffreys explained Tuesday morning.
As a result, the Republican Party of Wisconsin says it is filing a complaint over duplicate absentee ballots mailed in Green Bay.
Jeffreys will lead a second election day update at 2:30 p.m. and then a third and final one at 6:30 p.m.
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