Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., calls for a probe after Madison city officials say 'human error' resulted in more than 2,200 duplicate ballots being sent out.
Rep. Tom Tiffany, R-Wis., demanded an immediate investigation Tuesday after city of Madison officials said 2,215 duplicate ballots had been sent out across 10 wards in error. Madison officials said the duplicate ballots have identical bar codes and so can't be counted twice. 'The City of Madison clerk said the duplicate absentee ballots were sent to one ward yesterday,' Tiffany wrote on X. 'Now, they say it’s 10.
The clerk's office described what happened as a 'data processing error,' explaining that the duplicate ballots have identical bar codes, so even if a voter submitted two absentee ballots, only one could be counted because the voting system does not accept the same bar code twice. Also, once the ballot is scanned, the voter is marked in the poll book as having submitted an absentee ballot. That is another safeguard against the voter submitting a second ballot, the clerk’s office said.
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