Green Bay Clerk Celestine Jefferys resigned from her post just four days before the state’s Aug. 11 primary.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission said Jefferys broke the law by mailing 152 duplicate ballots before the spring election.
That ruling led to a challenge from the Brown County Republican Party.
The office then sent duplicate ballots to an unknown numbers of voters in late June.
Jefferys had been on leave during an investigation into the duplicate ballots by the WEC.
While the duplicate.ballots were not legal, there is no punishment prescribed for the offense.
“[Jefferys] discusses her duty to prevent more than one ballot from any voter being counted in an election, and the Commission agrees that this is a duty of the Respondent. The Commission disagrees only to the extent the [Jefferys] appears to argue that this is the only relevant duty concerning these allegations. Multiple checks and redundancies exist within the election administration system to prevent duplicate ballots from being either issued or counted. Clerks are required to track each request made, each ballot issued, each ballot returned, and each ballot counted. In this case, there was an error and violation in ballot issuance, but procedures to track, review, record, and, on Election Day, count valid returned absentee ballots appear to have been properly carried out,” the WEC wrote in a memo.
