Celestine Jeffreys, the Green Bay City Clerk who helped open the door to Mark Zuckerberg's election cash back in 2020, resigned on August 7 after a Wisconsin Elections Commission investigation found she personally reprinted absentee ballot labels that sent at least 152 duplicate ballots to voters in the April 2026 spring election. Then she did it again ahead of the August 11 primary.

Two elections in a row. Same clerk. Same "mistake."

Jeffreys had been on paid administrative leave since July 9, after the second round of duplicate ballot mailings surfaced ahead of the August primary. The Wisconsin Elections Commission launched a formal investigation and, according to its August 3 findings, identified Jeffreys as the person who reprinted the ballot labels in both incidents. The commission unanimously authorized the probe after staff found probable cause that Green Bay violated state election law.

Doug Reich, chairman of the Republican Party of Brown County, called the duplicate ballots "not an 'oops.'" He said her resignation was "the bare minimum, and it's long overdue." Nicholas Boerke, legal counsel for Brown County GOP board member Theresa Sipes, put it more bluntly: "This is either gross incompetence or something worse and the difference matters."

Jeffreys wasn't just any city clerk. She was the former chief of staff to Mayor Genrich who took over the clerk's office in January 2021 — right after Green Bay became one of the "Wisconsin 5," the five largest liberal-run cities in the state that received the lion's share of $10 million in grants from Mark Zuckerberg and his wife. Those grants came with strings requiring collaboration with left-wing "voter rights" organizations, including bringing in outside operatives like Michael Spitzer-Rubenstein, a former New York Democrat, to help run Green Bay's 2020 election operations. That arrangement triggered investigations, lawsuits, and a state ban on private election funding.

So the clerk at the center of the Zuckbucks mess — the one who presided over an office that let out-of-state political operatives help manage a presidential election in a swing city — is also the clerk who sent duplicate absentee ballots to voters in two consecutive elections while the state investigated her conduct.

Former Brown County Clerk Sandy Juno, a Republican, suggested the city use this moment to evaluate whether they had "the right person in that job" in the first place. A fair question — five years late, but fair.

Jeffreys held the job for over five years. In that time, Green Bay's election office became a national symbol of what happens when private money, outside operatives, and a politically connected clerk converge on a swing-state city's vote infrastructure. She's gone now. The investigation continues.