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This isn’t the first misstep by Green Bay’s clerk.
Green Bay’s DEI hire city clerk is facing another state investigation on yet another election administration “error.”Celestine Jeffreys was placed on administrative leave last week after her office sent an unspecified number of absentee ballots to voters in several Green Bay wards — in advance of Wisconsin’s August primary. Jeffreys’ office described the mistake as a “printing error,” according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.
The bungling clerk’s latest miscue occurred less than three months after the office issued duplicate absentee ballots “in at least 152 instances” before the city’s spring elections, according to a complaint filed by the Republican Party of Wisconsin and Brown County GOP board member Theresa Sipes.
‘It’s Not an Oops’
At a meeting on Thursday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission moved to open an investigation into Green Bay’s top election official, who has repeatedly broken state election law and has continuously undercut voter confidence in Wisconsin’s third-largest city. Former commission chair and Democrat appointee Ann Jacobs said she found the latest mistake “unconscionable.”
“We need, I think, as an organization to investigate exactly what was going on in Green Bay, so we know how this error happened,” Jacobs said. “Any assurances we had after the first time it happened that it wouldn’t happen again are thin at this point.”
The situation is so bad that Green Bay’s leftist leader was forced to issue a press release announcing the clerk he hand-picked to do his bidding in the rigged 2020 election will be on administrative leave pending the city’s own internal review and the WEC investigation. Mayor Eric Genrich called the errors “unacceptable,” but insisted the city has “no concerns with the security or propriety of the electoral process.” He said that the city is acting to make sure “these errors are never replicated.”
But city officials said the same in April.
“It’s not an ‘oops.’ There’s a long track record of this,” Doug Reich, chairman of the Republican Party of Brown County, told The Federalist on Sunday in a phone interview. “It’s up to the mayor’s office and the city council to remove her from that position and hold her accountable, and when that fails to happen we’re supposed to have WEC do it.”
After years of dealing with a hostile clerk’s office, Reich and other Brown County Republicans say they aren’t holding their breath that things will change. Even if Jeffreys is shown the door, Genrich’s critics believe the highly partisan mayor and his rubber-stamp city council will put someone even more concerning in the clerk’s office.
In short, things could get a lot worse in a city notorious for election shenanigans as the critical midterm election approaches.
‘This Will Happen Again’
In response to the Republican Party of Wisconsin’s complaint in April, the Elections Commission found probable cause that Jeffreys broke state election law in sending out scores of duplicate absentee ballots before the spring election. At least 152 individuals received two ballots.
RPW filed the complaint on behalf of a Green Bay voter, Theresa Sipes, who after completing and returning an absentee ballot received another for the same election. The party said the clerk’s office did not respond to its concerns, so it filed the complaint with the state elections regulator.
City officials blamed the problem on a printing issue and an administrative error, the Green Bay Gazette reported. Incredibly, they insisted that Jeffereys’ office didn’t violate election law because only one voter sent back two ballots.
“They essentially claimed it’s not illegal to send out duplicate ballots,” Reich said. “So we filed a rebuttal and said if WEC doesn’t act this will happen again. Sure enough, in a few weeks the same thing happened again.”
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PILF sent a letter to Green Bay’s far-left mayor and city council encouraging them to relieve the notorious city clerk of her duties.
Right on cue, Green Bay city officials have changed course on an audit of the latest ballot debacle in the City Clerk’s office, opting to handle the matter in house. So much for an “independent review” of a disgraced election official with a long record of incompetence and failure to follow Wisconsin law.Meanwhile, the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF), a Virginia-based nonpartisan, nonprofit, public-interest election law firm, on Monday sent a friendly letter to Green Bay’s far-left mayor and city council encouraging them to permanently relieve City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys of her duties.
‘Unacceptable’
Jeffries was placed on administrative leave last week after her office sent an unspecified number of absentee ballots to voters in several Green Bay wards — in advance of swing state Wisconsin’s August primary. Jeffreys’ office described the mistake as a “printing error,” according to the Green Bay Press Gazette.
In a statement to The Federalist earlier this week, the city said Jeffreys would remain on leave pending the completion of an “ongoing internal review” and a separate investigation by the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
But the city’s Protection and Policy Committee has ditched a planned independent audit of Green Bay’s suspect election administration processes and is instead directing city staff to complete a full report, according to WBAY. Staff members will present their findings at the Aug. 18 city council meeting, the news outlet reported.
As The Federalist reported, the bungling clerk’s latest miscue occurred less than three months after the office issued duplicate absentee ballots “in at least 152 instances” before the city’s spring elections. The Republican Party of Wisconsin and Brown County GOP board member Theresa Sipes filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission.
At a meeting on Thursday, the Wisconsin Elections Commission moved to open an investigation into Green Bay’s top election official, who has repeatedly broken state election law and has continuously undercut voter confidence in Wisconsin’s third-largest city, as The Federalist reported.
In a statement issued last week, Mayor Eric Genrich called the errors “unacceptable,” but insisted the city has “no concerns with the security or propriety of the electoral process.” He said that the city is acting to make sure “these errors are never replicated.”
But city officials said the same in April.
“It’s not an ‘oops.’ There’s a long track record of this,” Doug Reich, chairman of the Republican Party of Brown County, told The Federalist on Sunday in a phone interview. “It’s up to the mayor’s office and the city council to remove her from that position and hold her accountable, and when that fails to happen, we’re supposed to have WEC do it.”
‘Unaware’
As the Public Interest Legal Foundation’s Research Director Logan Churchwell wrote in the letter to city officials, the city clerk has yet again violated state election law and Wisconsin Elections Commission guidance. Will she be held accountable? She really hasn’t been yet. --->READ MORE HERE
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