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Ah! So this is the excuse they'll use going forward. 'Me too dumb to unnerstan' da law, so I'se do the best that and if it heps da Dems, waddya gonna do'.
Good grief, Dem are corrupt.
It’s more of the same from Celestine Jeffreys in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020.
thefederalist.com
Good grief, Dem are corrupt.
It’s more of the same from Celestine Jeffreys in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020.
Green Bay’s law-bending elections chief is at it again, but this time City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys admits she didn’t understand the election law she was breaking.
In response to a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation on behalf of three Green Bay citizens, Jeffreys “concedes that she has not been strictly adhering to the statutory requirements in Wisconsin Statutes … but the failure to do so was inadvertent and due to a lack of awareness of the statutory requirements.”
In short, the much-troubled clerk was ignorant, not willful, according to the legal response. It’s more of the same from Jeffreys, the former chief of staff for Green Bay’s far-left mayor in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020 and turned punitive when its bumbling clerk previously twisted state election law.
The Law is Clear
Last month, PILF filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) alleging Jeffreys ignored laws aimed at detecting abuse of the Badger State’s same-day registration process. Wisconsin is one of 20 states and the District of Columbia that offers election day registration, according to the National Conference of State Legislators.
The law is clear. The Elections Commission after each election is required to mail postcards to voters who registered on election day, part of its post-election audit demanded under state statute. Undelivered postcards are sent back to the clerk’s office of the city of origin.
According to the law, for any postcard that is returned undelivered, or if the clerk is informed the voter resides at a different address than the one provided on election day, the election official must change the status of the voter “from eligible to ineligible on the registration list.” Then the official must mail the voter a notice of the change, “and provide the name of the elector to the district attorney for the county where the polling place is located and the elections commission.”
In February 2023, WEC “updated guidance regarding the handling and processing of Election Day Registration postcards returned to a clerk’s office after an election,” confirming the requirements are mandatory. Jeffreys failed to do this part of her job at every turn, according to the complaint.
‘Inactivated Zero Residents’
PILF’s lawsuit notes that Green Bay reported 3,497 Election Day registrations in the hotly contested 2020 presidential race in which Democrat candidate Joe Biden narrowly defeated then-President Donald Trump in the battleground Badger State. Of those, 170 were returned “undeliverable” to the clerk’s office. WEC’s Election Day Registrations report found Green Bay elections officials “inactivated zero registrants and referred zero registrants to the district attorney.”
That line — ‘inactivated zero residents’ — comes up again and again. The 2021 elections, the primary and general elections in 2022, in which Wisconsin Democrat Tony Evers and most leftist statewide officers won, and again in the 2023 spring election in which the far-left Wisconsin Supreme Court justice candidate claimed victory and turned control of the court over to leftists. In the latter contest, of the 672 election day registrants, 24 postcards were returned as undeliverable to Jeffreys’ office.
Instead of following the law, Jeffreys recorded the postcards as “undeliverable” in WisVote and took no further action. All the stuff she’s supposed to do — mark the voter as ineligible on the registration list, mail the voter an alert about the change, and alert the local DA and the elections commission of the possible fraudulent activity — Jeffreys isn’t doing any of it, according to the lawsuit.
Oops.
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Green Bay Clerk Violates Swing State Election Law Again
It’s more of the same from Celestine Jeffreys in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020.
thefederalist.com
