Wisconsin elections chair blames ‘human error’ for double ballots in two communities

(The Center Square) – The head of Wisconsin’s elections commission says it was mistakes, not fraud, that led to some voters getting two ballots ahead of the primary election on Tuesday.

News broke over the weekend that nearly 150 voters in Green Bay were sent duplicate ballots. On Monday, some voters in Racine said they too were sent two separate ballots.

“Two sets of Wisconsin voters received TWO ballots for tomorrow’s election for different reasons. This does NOT mean they get to vote twice. It is not fraud. It was human error,” WEC Chairwoman Ann Jacobs wrote on social media.

In Green Bay, the local elections clerk said someone on her staff mistakenly printed two sets of mailing labels, and someone else accidentally mailed two ballots to those voters.

In Racine, Jacobs explained, someone in the local clerk’s office left a judicial race off the ballot.

“In Racine, a non-contested municipal judge race was left off of the ballot. ...