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
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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.