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Eight anonymous Wausau residents filed a formal ethics complaint against Mayor Doug Diny with the City of Wausau Ethics Board, alleging improper conduct in his handling of a ballot drop box before the 2024 election

Wisconsin saw such high voter turnout that it overwhelmed the computer system clerks use to process ballots.

Absentee ballot drop boxes in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin are available in a small fraction of the places they were four years ago, with many conservative communities opting not to offer them for the upcoming election.

An absentee ballot drop box that the mayor of a central Wisconsin city removed a week ago is back in place. The Wausau city clerk said Monday that the drop box was available outside city hall “for residents to submit absentee ballots, payments, and other important city requests as was intended.”

Wisconsin is again mired in controversy over the use of ballot drop boxes and a civic engagement group hopes it does not dovetail into what it described as voter suppression tatics

When the elections clerk in Wisconsin’s heavily Democratic capital city of Madison announced on Monday that duplicate absentee ballots had mistakenly been sent to around 2,000 voters, it ignited concerns about election integrity from a Republican congressman and others on the right.

Wausau Mayor Doug Diny said he was doing some work at his office at City Hall on Sunday when he claimed to have noticed the ballot drop box, which sits on the corner by the handicap accessibility ramp outside City Hall, was not properly secured.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Up to 2,000 voters in Wisconsin's heavily Democratic capital of Madison were sent duplicate absentee ballots, but a city spokesperson said Tuesday that none had been returned, all affected voters were being contacted and there were multiple safeguards in place to ensure only one ballot is counted.

A judge has refused to put on hold his ruling that allows disabled people in Wisconsin to be emailed absentee ballots at home in November’s presidential election in the closely watched battleground state.

A Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling earlier this month means that local clerks can choose to use a ballot drop box again.