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Wisconsin Elections Panel Guidance Led Clerks to Fill Out Witness Addresses, Contrary to State Law

Guidance issued by the Wisconsin Elections Commission resulted in municipal clerks filling out missing witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates, contrary to the plain language of the state law, according to Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.

Wisconsin’s statute requires each absentee ballot to be accompanied by a certificate signed by a witness who must write down his or her address.

“If a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted,” the law states.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission appears to have disregarded the statute when, in October, it formally instructed clerks and election officials across the state to take it upon themselves to fill out missing addresses on mail ballots by looking up their information in the voter registry or through other “reliable information.”

“This is not at all what the law directs,” (read more)

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