Posted on 05/13/2024 7:56:28 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Green Bay’s law-bending elections chief is at it again, but this time City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys admits she didn’t understand the election law she was breaking.
In response to a complaint filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation on behalf of three Green Bay citizens, Jeffreys “concedes that she has not been strictly adhering to the statutory requirements in Wisconsin Statutes … but the failure to do so was inadvertent and due to a lack of awareness of the statutory requirements.”
In short, the much-troubled clerk was ignorant, not willful, according to the legal response. It’s more of the same from Jeffreys, the former chief of staff for Green Bay’s far-left mayor in a city that made national news during the Zuckerbucks scandal of 2020 and turned punitive when its bumbling clerk previously twisted state election law.
Last month, PILF filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) alleging Jeffreys ignored laws aimed at detecting abuse of the Badger State’s same-day registration process. Wisconsin is one of 20 states and the District of Columbia that offers election day registration, according to the National Conference of State Legislators.
The law is clear. The Elections Commission after each election is required to mail postcards to voters who registered on election day, part of its post-election audit demanded under state statute. Undelivered postcards are sent back to the clerk’s office of the city of origin.
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Sorry, judge. I’m a dumb ass.
If Democrats are winning the rigged “elections”, it’s ALL GOOD with the American Media.
They’re pretty much using the same line to get Biden off the hook for abusing classified documents.
If the right were to use this excuse for even a minor little thing, there would be wall to wall screaming by the MSM, impeachment, imprisonment, fines.
The dems use the excuse daily and no one says much of anything.
I’m exaggerating, but I dont think I am far off.
ignorance is no excuse of the law?
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/32/when-is-ignorance-a-legal-defense
The answer to every problem, conservatives being worse or just as bad, is another law.
The market place, local justice, common sense used to be the preferred solutions.
Ignorance of the law is not a valid legal excuse.
Whatever happened to “ignorance of the law is no excuse”?
So much for affirmative action.
The Wanda Halbert of vote counts.
Its how elections are won.
White expectations of black government bureaucrats is a form of racial injustice.
“ignorance is no excuse of the law?”
It is in today’s society. There is a list of things to use when caught:
Voluntary intoxication: This may negate some specific intent or premeditation to commit a crime;
Diminished capacity: This defense is available in some jurisdictions when insanity cannot be fully established; this means that if an individual has certain mental defects, some intent to commit the crime can be viewed as out of their control;
Reasonable and unreasonable mistakes: The defendant may have mistaken something that negates their intent to commit a crime;
Heat of passion: This occurs when an individual commits a crime while provoked; This defense is often used to lessen a murder charge to voluntary manslaughter;
and imperfect self-defense: This defense can be used when a defendant applies deadly force because they made an honest but unreasonable mistake that such force was necessary for self-defense.
Biden’s escape from opsec and comsec violations attached to NSA charges was diminished capacity. Of course he can remain as president even though he is mentally deficient to discharge his responsibilities at the simplest levels. So I guess that lowers the level of requirement to be president. In a few years, they will be able to run an ax murderer.
wy69
“ignorance is no excuse of the law?”
It is in today’s society. There is a list of things to use when caught:
Voluntary intoxication: This may negate some specific intent or premeditation to commit a crime;
Diminished capacity: This defense is available in some jurisdictions when insanity cannot be fully established; this means that if an individual has certain mental defects, some intent to commit the crime can be viewed as out of their control;
Reasonable and unreasonable mistakes: The defendant may have mistaken something that negates their intent to commit a crime;
Heat of passion: This occurs when an individual commits a crime while provoked; This defense is often used to lessen a murder charge to voluntary manslaughter;
and imperfect self-defense: This defense can be used when a defendant applies deadly force because they made an honest but unreasonable mistake that such force was necessary for self-defense.
Biden’s escape from opsec and comsec violations attached to NSA charges was diminished capacity. Of course he can remain as president even though he is mentally deficient to discharge his responsibilities at the simplest levels. So I guess that lowers the level of requirement to be president. In a few years, they will be able to run an ax murderer.
wy69
Fani Willis said the same thing about the law requiring her to disclose $100 or more of gifts that she received.
-PJ
“...Claims She Doesn’t Understand It...”
So, THAT qualifies her to be election chief????
It’s what you get when you have diversity hires who jumped to the head of the line on hiring day
“It is more important to block bad laws than pass good ones.” - Calvin Coolidge
BS Her job was precisely, to understand the law and enforce it.
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