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RandySF

(70,745 posts)
Wed Sep 25, 2024, 11:56 PM Sep 25

Wausau clerk reports election irregularity to DA and Elections Commission after drop box removal by mayor

WAUSAU – City Clerk Kaitlyn Bernarde reported Wednesday an election irregularity regarding the movement of the clerk’s office drop box to the Marathon County district attorney and the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

The report of the irregularity comes after Wausau Mayor Doug Diny admitted to moving the clerk’s office drop box Sunday afternoon after noticing it was not secured to the pavement outside of City Hall.

Wisconsin Statute 7.15(1)(g) directs municipal clerks to report “suspected election frauds, irregularities, or violations of which the clerk has knowledge to the district attorney for the county where the suspected activity occurs and to the commission.”

The drop box was placed outside of City Hall and relabeled on Friday with the phrase “Official Drop Box” with the intention of using it to collect payments, ballots and other important requests, Bernarde wrote in a Wednesday afternoon news release. It was also locked and labeled, “Kiosk closed.”




https://www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/09/25/wausau-clerk-reports-election-irregularity-after-absentee-ballot-drop-box-removal-by-mayor-doug-diny/75384624007/

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Wausau clerk reports election irregularity to DA and Elections Commission after drop box removal by mayor (Original Post) RandySF Sep 25 OP
voting justacouple Sep 26 #1
Nope. Not a good idea if you actually want more people to vote and ... A HERETIC I AM Sep 26 #2
voting justacouple Sep 26 #3
I'm all for it. RandySF Sep 26 #4
Absolutely. A HERETIC I AM Sep 26 #5
AlterNet Story on this anti-democratic goof Diny StClone Sep 26 #6

A HERETIC I AM

(24,590 posts)
5. Absolutely.
Thu Sep 26, 2024, 01:22 AM
Sep 26

It should be a 4 day paid holiday; Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Election day.

It kills me that every single thing the right wing is dead set against - early voting, lots of drop boxes, lots of precincts, long hours, making voting easy etc. etc. etc. are ALL the case in Utah, but no one ever says a single word about how Utah conducts their elections.

Why? Because Utah is a fucking reliably red state, that's why.

Make voting easy to do, allow several days or a week or a month if necessary to do it, do away with gerrymandering, pass the voting rights acts that the Republicans have nixed and there would be liberal majorities in both houses in 6 years.

StClone

(11,869 posts)
6. AlterNet Story on this anti-democratic goof Diny
Thu Sep 26, 2024, 01:41 PM
Sep 26

Mayor of battleground state city caught on camera moving ballot box: 'You can’t do that'

https://www.alternet.org/wausau-mayor-ballot-box/
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