Envelope containing voting ballot papers being sent by mail for absentee vote in presidential election
The Wisconsin Elections Commission will not be changing the way they recommend clerks handle mistakes on absentee ballot envelopes.
Republicans on the commission wanted to require clerks to contact voters whose envelopes have errors to confirm changes in order to prevent fraud.
Commission Chair Ann Jacobs says that was trying to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.
Jacobs told members, “the idea that there’s this grand criminal enterprise of people intentionally forging ballots and then not filling out the witness address so that the clerks can do it for them as some sort of nefarious scheme is bizarre.”
Monday night’s vote means the Commission will send the current guidance to correct changes when possible, to the legislature’s joint rules committee for a review.
Republicans on that committee are likely to object.
