{"id":2383873,"date":"2024-12-26T20:35:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-officials-find-nearly-200-missing-absentee-ballots-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-26T20:36:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T01:36:44","slug":"wisconsin-officials-find-nearly-200-missing-absentee-ballots-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-officials-find-nearly-200-missing-absentee-ballots-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin officials find nearly 200 missing absentee ballots &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwisconsin-officials-find-nearly-200-missing-absentee-ballots-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/florida-housing-program-stops-amid-homeless-training-how-to-squat\/\" title=\"Florida housing initiative halts due to training homeless on squatting practices\">provided text\u200b appears<\/a> to be a snippet of HTML code that includes a\u2062 &#8220;Read more&#8230;&#8221; button designed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-live-harris-whitmer-and-gallego-headline-final-day-of-dnc-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"WATCH LIVE: Harris, Whitmer, and Gallego headline final day of DNC - Washington Examiner\">expand additional content<\/a> when clicked. 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The office has signaled it will make changes to avoid such a mistake in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Moving forward, every polling location will receive a list of <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">absentee envelope seal numbers<\/a> that will be verified as counted on Election Day,&rdquo; a statement from the office says.&nbsp;&ldquo;The goal of the Clerk&rsquo;s Office is that each eligible voter will be able to cast a ballot and have that ballot counted. Falling short of this goal for the November 2024 Election, we sincerely apologize to our voters and will strive to make sure this never happens again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway, a Democrat, expressed her disappointment in a statement released on Thursday: &ldquo;This oversight is a significant departure from the high standard our residents expect and must be addressed and avoided in future elections.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We plan to conduct a thorough review of the City&rsquo;s election policies and procedures to ensure this kind of oversight does not recur. My office is committed to taking whatever corrective action is necessary to maintain a high standard of election integrity in Madison, and to provide ongoing transparency into that process,&rdquo; Rhodes-Conway added. &ldquo;This statement and the timeline are a first step in doing so.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I also wish to offer an apology to affected voters,&rdquo; her statement continued. &ldquo;You have my word that immediate steps will be taken to ensure this kind of mistake will not happen again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump claimed widespread election fraud after the 2020 elections, though no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-secretary-of-state-yes-iran-supports-terrorism-but-we-still-might-kill-trumps-sanctions\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Secretary Of State: Yes, Iran Supports Terrorism, But We Still Might Kill Trump\u2019s Sanctions\">widespread evidence<\/a> was found.<\/p>\n<p>Trump beat Vice President Kamala Harris in Wisconsin by nearly 30,000 votes in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1921709\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1921709\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin officials uncover nearly 200 uncounted absentee ballots post-election<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Voting.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32692,6571,33358,4351,4124],"class_list":["post-2383873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-absentee-ballots","tag-elections","tag-voter-turnout","tag-voting","tag-wisconsin"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Voting.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383877,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383873\/revisions\/2383877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}