Wisconsin City Clerk Sued in Alleged Illegal Ballot Harvesting Scheme

Wisconsin City Clerk Sued in Alleged Illegal Ballot Harvesting Scheme
Erick G. Kaardal. Courtesy Erick G. Kaardal
Matthew Vadum
Matthew Vadum
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The city clerk of Green Bay, Wisconsin, participated in illegal absentee ballot harvesting in the April 5 local election, a new legal complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission claims.

Several voters reported seeing City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys accepting multiple absentee ballots from the hand of a single person several times, according to Erick Kaardal, special counsel with the Thomas More Society, a nonprofit public interest law firm. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich, a Democrat, appointed Jeffreys to her current post.