Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) revealed that thousands of duplicate absentee ballots “did not have bar codes” after Madison city officials said the duplicate absentee ballots had bar codes.
in post In her post, Tiffany wrote that staff at the Madison Clerk's Office told her the duplicate ballots had identical barcodes and therefore could not be submitted. Tiffany's post read: It is called The city called for an “investigation” after Madison city officials revealed that 2,215 duplicate ballots were sent to about 10 precincts.
“Developing,” Tiffany wrote, “the Madison Clerk's Office is claiming that their voting system will not allow ballots to be submitted with the same barcode, but my office has evidence that the actual ballots do not have barcodes.”
Tiffany included a photo of a ballot without a barcode in her post.
Following the news that over 2,000 duplicate ballots had been sent to multiple precincts, Tiffany letter In a letter to Madison's clerk, Maribeth Witzel Baer, he said he was “surprised” by the news.
“Like many Wisconsinites, I am disturbed by recent reports from your office that 'approximately 2,000' duplicate ballots were sent out,” Tiffany wrote. “The Clerk's Office subsequently released a six-sentence statement claiming that the 'error' affected an 'isolated number of voters' in one precinct and was 'promptly discovered and corrected,' without providing any significant details.”
Tiffany further questioned how the “error” was “discovered,” what the “exact number of duplicate ballots” sent out was, and whether the clerk's office contacted law enforcement “to investigate whether this 'error' was the result of simple incompetence or intentional, malicious behavior.”
“This can't just be swept under the rug,” Tiffany said. said “Those responsible for this must be held accountable,” Fox News said in a statement.
