MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Nearly 200 absentee ballots somehow went uncounted in Wisconsin’s liberal capital after the Nov. 5 election, prompting state election officials to launch an investigation Thursday into whether the city clerk broke the law.

Election integrity advocates contend the probe would be a good first step for addressing vote-counting issues in Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission unanimously authorized an investigation Thursday into Madison’s mishandling of nearly 200 absentee ballots that were never counted from the November 2024 election. It’s the first such investigation that the bipartisan commission has authorized since becoming an agency in 2016.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted Thursday to investigate how nearly 200 absentee ballots cast in Madison were overlooked and not counted on Election Night. “This was such a serious oversight that I didn’t want to wait for a complaint,

Wisconsin’s election managers are going to look into Madison’s 200 missing absentee ballots found in the days and weeks after Election Day. "The integrity of the election process is important and we needed to know and understand this,

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