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Meagan Wolfe: “We don't issue absentee ballots, we don't register voters…”

Featuring: Meagan Wolfe, Administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission

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Published | Video Starts at 22:53

And oftentimes people will make claims that our office is handling those in a way that they might not agree with. Well, we like to explain to those folks that that's not true. At the states, We don't issue absentee ballots, we don't register voters, and we actually don't have a lot of statutory authority over maintaining the voter rolls. All of that happens at the local level. By those 1851 municipal clerks, they're the ones that register voters. They're the ones that issue absentees, that count the ballots and that maintain the voter list and ensure that they're accurate. (22:53–23:05)

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Asserts that the state elections commission does not issue absentee ballots, register voters, or maintain voter rolls.

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