City clerk: More than 10,000 ballots collected during Democracy in the Park

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ELECTION 2020 | DEMOCRACY IN THE PARK
City clerk: More than 10,000 ballots collected during Democracy in the Park

    Riley Vetterkind | Wisconsin State Journal 3 hrs ago

Andy Manis, For the State Journal



The city of Madison collected 10,813 absentee ballots from local residents at this weekend’s Democracy in the Park event, which state Republicans tried to halt.

Despite a threat of legal action from the state GOP if the event were to take place, the Madison City Clerk’s Office forged ahead, arguing Republicans had no legal support for allegations the event constituted an “illegal collection of ballots” that “falls outside lawful categories.”

Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl said the clerk’s office did not separate the more than 10,000 ballots from others that have been turned in or that have arrived by mail.

Witzel-Behl said the clerk’s office has already sorted them with other absentee ballots the city has received and organized them by ward and last name. She said there isn’t a way to determine which ballots were turned in at Democracy in the Park, making it virtually impossible for any legal challenge to block the ballots from being counted.

While the ballots have been sorted and alphabetized, they have not been tabulated. Under Wisconsin law, absentee ballots cannot be tabulated until 7 a.m. on Election Day.

So far, 89,305 of the city of Madison’s 185,466 registered voters have requested an absentee ballot.

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PSA announcer: Join the City Clerks office for a fun weekend of Felony in the Park. Share the day with like-minded Marxists in an open air display of election fraud. Trade votes! Win prizes! If you’re too busy forging signatures to attend, you can catch the event live streaming on your local news station website. Remember, it’s not the vote that counts, it’s who counts the vote!