Voting records on the Government Accountability Board's website suggest Lt. Gov. Barbara Lawton has not voted or registered to vote since 2003, but there is likely an error in the Internet database, according to her chief of staff.
Ben Nuckels, Lawton's chief of staff, said Lawton is a registered voter and Kevin Kennedy, director of the Government Accountability Board, confirmed it.
According to Nuckels, Lawton's voting information is in the GAB's system, but simply does not show up on the voter public access database.
The online database shows Lawton voting 56 times from 1979 until 2003, the year she was elected as Lt. Governor.
Lawton and her husband moved to their current residence in Clay Banks, Wis., that year, and her voting records likely did not transfer after the move, according to Nuckels.
If the records on the GAB website were true, Lawton would not have even cast a vote for herself in the 2006 election.
