The Milwaukee Election Commission will seek a formal U.S. Postal Service investigation into what happened to absentee ballots that did not reach Milwaukee voters, commission Executive Director Neil Albrecht said Wednesday.
Albrecht said the commission wanted the investigation to be centered around “absentee ballots that were issued and mailed by the City of Milwaukee around the March 22nd and 23rd period.”
He said the city saw a pattern of calls from voters whose ballots had been issued on March 22 and March 23 but never reached them.
“The pattern that we saw in terms of a volume of voters — and I can’t give an exact percentage — calling in and saying that they had not received their ballots really drew our attention to those two days,” Albrecht said during a virtual news conference Wednesday afternoon.