Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI) revealed that 1000’s of duplicate absentee ballots contained “no barcode” on them after officers in Madison Metropolis stated the duplicate ballots had the barcode.
In a submit on X, Tiffany wrote that officers within the Madison Clerk’s Workplace had acknowledged that as a result of the duplicate ballots had equivalent barcodes, they’d not be allowed to be submitted. Tiffany’s submit got here a day after he referred to as for an “investigation” after Madison officers revealed that 2,215 duplicate ballots had been despatched out to roughly 10 wards.
“DEVELOPING,” Tiffany wrote. “Though the Madison Clerk’s Workplace claims, ‘The voting system doesn’t permit a poll with the identical barcode to be submitted,’ my workplace has proof that there isn’t any barcode on the precise ballots.”
Tiffany included a photograph in his submit that confirmed a poll with no barcode.
In response to the information that greater than 2,000 duplicate ballots had been despatched out to a number of wards, Tiffany wrote a letter addressed to Maribeth Witzel-Behl, the clerk of Madison, stating that he was “alarmed” on the information.
“Like many Wisconsinites, I used to be alarmed by current reviews that ‘round 2,000’ duplicate ballots have been despatched out by your workplace,” Tiffany wrote. “The Clerk’s Workplace has since issued a six-sentence assertion claiming, with out offering any vital particulars, that this ‘error’ affected ‘an remoted variety of voters’ in a single ward and ‘was rapidly caught and corrected.’”
Tiffany continued on to query how the “error” had been “found,” what the “actual variety of duplicate ballots” despatched out had been, and whether or not the Clerk’s Workplace had reached out to legislation enforcement officers “to analyze whether or not this ‘error’ was the results of easy incompetence or a deliberate nefarious act.”
“This could’t simply be swept below the rug,” Tiffany instructed Fox Information in an announcement. “The individuals liable for this have to be held accountable.”