One of the bags of uncounted ballots from Madison’s 2024 presidential election was inadvertently stored in a county-owned building that was left unsecured at times and that was used at one point by an “unauthorized” person for shelter, according to the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s latest report into the ballot snafu.
The bag, which contained 68 ballots, was discovered after the election in a building that formerly housed the Ale Asylum brewery. Madison records show that as recently as February 2025, a door to the facility wasn’t locking properly, and email records show that county officials discussed conducting wellness and security checks at the building at that time. It’s unclear when exactly the homeless person was inside the building.