GREEN BAY (WTAQ-WLUK) — Green Bay City Clerk Celestine Jeffreys has stepped down from her position.
That’s according to a joint statement by Jeffreys and the city posted online Friday.
Jeffreys has been on administrative leave since the Wisconsin Elections Commission started its investigation into how duplicate absentee ballots were sent to voters for the April and August elections.
The city issued a two-sentence statement: “The City of Green Bay and Celestine Jeffreys are jointly announcing that Ms. Jeffreys has made the decision to step down from her role as City Clerk. We wish her the best in her future endeavors.”
In its most recent filing with the WEC, the city cited Jeffreys’ actions as the problem for the August incident.
“Sometime during the morning of June 22, 2026, Clerk Jeffreys reviewed one of the four boxes containing the regular absentee voter labels to ensure labels were correctly printed and complete. While reviewing a box, Clerk Jeffreys believed some labels were missing from the end of the batch. As a result, Clerk Jeffreys reprinted a portion of those labels by locating the “2026-06-17 Fall Primary AB Labels—Reg Only” PDF document (previously sent to the Print Shop) and selecting what she believed to be the missing pages from the batch. These labels were then reprinted and affixed to ballot envelopes for processing. This reprinting would later be identified as the source of the duplicates,” the city stated.
The filing prompted a response from Theresa Sipes, who filed the complaint with the WEC, saying the city’s reply was “not enough.”
The WEC currently has nothing scheduled on the matter.
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