Controversial Wisconsin Clerk Admits To Violating Election Law

The Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) filed a complaint against the Green Bay city clerk to the Wisconsin Elections Commission for not following state law to verify same-day voter registrations. Same-day voter registration, which is when people can register to vote and cast a ballot at the same time, is a practice that both PILF and the Honest Elections Project warn may let illegal votes be counted before a voter’s registration can be verified.

PILF reported the Green Bay city clerk to the Wisconsin Elections Commission for failing to follow state law on same-day voter registration, an election practice that election integrity advocates warn can allow illegal votes to be counted.

PILF President J. Christian Adams said on the “Just the News, No Noise” TV show on Wednesday that “the problem with same-day registration of course is you don’t know, in fact, if they’re eligible to vote. Well, that’s what Wisconsin law does, is they require a verification mailing, and if the mailing bounces, the DA is supposed to investigate and possibly prosecute.”

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Adams added that across Wisconsin, “they’re not following the law. And that Green Bay’s clerk is not doing what the statute says she’s supposed to do. So the Public Interest Legal Foundation is representing Wisconsin citizens to try to get this fix and get her to follow the law that’s meant to make our elections more secure.”

PILF filed a complaint to the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday, claiming that Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys “has only inactivated two registrants and referred one individual to the District Attorney,” despite receiving 270 undeliverable postcards from Election Day Registrations since the 2020 primary election.

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Controversial Wisconsin Clerk Admits To Violating Election Law, Claims She Doesn’t Understand It

It’s more of the same from Celestine Jeffreys in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020.

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By: M.D. Kittle, The Federalist, May 13, 2024;

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.”

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