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Everything had been going just fine on the morning of election day in Summit, Wisconsin, when a voter walked up to an election official and asked why Chanz Green wasn’t on the ballot as a state Assembly candidate. A few checks, a couple calls, and then panic set in: It was an election official’s worst nightmare. The Douglas County clerk, who’s relatively new to leading the office, assigned the wrong Assembly race to the small northern Wisconsin town. Summit’s town clerk, who’s also somewhat new, didn’t catch it. Neither did the candidates. Only a voter did, on the last day of a 47-day voting p…

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