Lawsuit filed over uncounted Madison ballots

The Center Square) – There’s now a lawsuit over the nearly 200 absentee ballots that election managers in Madison didn’t count last fall.

The law firm Law Forward filed a class action suit on behalf of eight voters in Dane County.

“The right to vote is fundamental in the State of Wisconsin and ‘may not under our Constitution and laws be destroyed or even unreasonably restricted. No matter how the franchise is exercised, the Wisconsin Constitution’s guarantee remains constant: the right to vote is ‘a sacred right of the highest character.'” Law Forward wrote in its court filing. “Nevertheless, despite the hallowed protections in our state constitution, [the city of Madison] irrevocably deprived each Plaintiff, and every member of the putative class, of their right to vote in the November 2024 general election.”

In all, Madison’s former clerk and her staff didn’t count 193 absentee ballots cast during the November 2024 election.


https://blackchronicle.com/politics/lawsuit-filed-over-uncounted-madison-ballots/