DANE COUNTY, Wis. (WTAQ) - If you own property in 2 communities, you cannot vote in both places in the same election. Louis and Janice Kwiatkowski learned that lesson, when a jury in Dane County found them guilty of felony election fraud. Officials said they cast absentee ballots for last April’s election in Wyocena, where they owned a summer home. And on Election Day, they cast ballots at their permanent home in the Dane County town of Blooming Grove. The statewide computerized voter list caught them voting a second time in Blooming Grove. The Kwiatkowskis are both 67.
At their trial Monday, Janice testified that the clerk in Wyocena never told them they couldn’t vote in both places. And she said the clerk agreed with her that the law had changed, to let them vote wherever they own property. The couple’s attorney said they never would have voted twice if they had gotten the correct information in Wyocena. But Wyocena clerk Almon Porter testified that he never suggested that the couple could vote a second time.
