“Our goal is to be able to provide clean and complete statewide data.” “The ongoing review of this important topic involves multiple agencies and entities, each with different pieces at play,” DeSpain said. The state elections agency is reviewing all 22,733 entries to ensure the list is accurate, spokesperson Joel DeSpain said. Wake is one of 95 people in Dane County who altogether cast more than 300 ballots in past elections despite being on the state’s list of people deemed incompetent to vote, according to a county clerk’s office review of more than 1,000 records from the state’s list. Wisconsin voters with disabilities say absentee ballot law not followed In the 2020 presidential election, he voted again, this time in Madison as a previously registered voter. The system is designed to protect mentally incapacitated people from having someone else fill out their ballot.Īfter Wake recovered, he said the guardianship was lifted, although no court records show his voting rights were restored - an additional step he apparently didn’t take at the time.īut in 2018, despite still being on the statewide ineligible voter list, Wake registered and voted in Poynette, a small Columbia County village where his name was not on the local ineligible voters list.
The county’s register in probate sent that information to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, which added Wake’s name and Madison address to a list that contains more than 22,000 who have been “adjudicated incompetent” to vote in Wisconsin.
He also lost his voting rights when a Dane County judge placed him under a temporary guardianship. “I lost half my head,” he told Wisconsin Watch. In 2015, Mark Wake was in a serious motorcycle crash that put him in the hospital for 10 months with a severe brain injury. Listen to Statehouse Bureau Chief Matthew DeFour discuss this story with Civic Media’s Todd Allbaugh.
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