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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Scott Bauer

Former Wisconsin clerk who failed to count ballots broke laws, the state's elections commission says

Wisconsin Uncounted Ballots - (Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A “confluence of errors” including unlawful actions by the former clerk in Wisconsin's capital city led to nearly 200 absentee ballots not being counted in the November presidential election, an investigation by the state elections commission released Wednesday concluded.

Maribeth Witzel-Behl resigned as Madison city clerk in April amid investigations by the city and the Wisconsin Elections Commission into the missing ballots. No outcome of any race was affected by the missing ballots.

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