A liberal law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against the city of Madison on behalf of 193 absentee voters whose votes in last year’s November election went uncounted.
Plaintiffs in the 24-page suit, filed Wednesday in Dane County Circuit Court, are eight of those voters. They allege a series of mistakes — since acknowledged by the city — disenfranchised them and other voters from the Downtown and Near West Side, and that in the weeks after the election, officials failed to take any action that would have seen their votes tallied as part of a final, state-mandated canvas.
”The city had multiple opportunities to make this right, and it clearly had the duty to do so,” Kacy Gurewitz, staff counsel at Law Forward, said in a news release. “These voters invested substantial time in participating in this election, and they did everything right, but the city of Madison failed them.”