Republican Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany on Wednesday called for a local investigation into how 2,215 duplicate ballots mistakenly went out to voters in the state's capital of Madison.
Madison officials revealed the mistake on Tuesday but said that the duplicate ballots have the same barcode as the original ballots so they cannot be counted twice.
He questioned Witzel-Behl on how the error occurred in the first place, whether any of the duplicate ballots have been returned to the clerk's office, and whether the clerk's office has identified the person who made the mistake.
The error occurred when officials accidentally merged two identical files, instead of merging two separate lists as intended, according to Fox News.
City officials claimed that the mistake was "human error," and told voters to destroy one of the ballots and use the other to vote.
Tiffany sent a letter to Madison Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl about an investigation, demanding "answers and transparency" on the incident, claiming it was not the first time that the state capital engaged in "dubious" and "controversial" election practices.
"A mistake was made, the Clerk's Office moved swiftly to rectify the error and reassure voters, but there is NO possibility of a duplicate absentee ballot being counted," city spokesperson Dylan Brogan told Fox.
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