GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — Election day is underway in Wisconsin and Republican poll watchers are already crying foul over issues at the Green Bay City Clerk’s Office.
“We have observers at the clerk’s office who [Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys] has not allowed to be within the office space,” says Brown County GOP Election Integrity Specialist Sandy Juno. “She told them they have to sit in the hall.”
Central count is on the fourth floor of city hall, but absentee ballots can be dropped off at the city clerk’s office and observers say they should be allowed in to see it.
Juno, who previously served as the Brown County Clerk, says they’ve received a letter from a city attorney saying the observers aren’t allowed in the office. You can read that letter here. In it, city attorneys say that election observers have attempted to speak to those dropping off their ballots.
She says that otherwise things have gone relatively well so far today.
In a statement, the city of Green Bay said in part that observers aren’t privileged to listen to voters drop off their ballots at the office, which is not considered a polling place.
