If you want to vote for Andrea Frank as Sturgeon Bay mayor in April, you will have to write it in.

The City of Sturgeon Bay announced yesterday that it discovered an error on Frank’s nomination papers, revealing that at least three of her 51 signatures were from non-city residents. Candidates for mayor need to have between 50 and 100 signatures to be placed on the ballot. City Clerk Stephanie Reinhardt shared that “part of the election process includes a facial review of nomination papers before certifying the ballot placement to the County Clerk.” During this process, the city discovered the non-city residents who had signed the papers. As a part of the process, each person circulating nomination papers must certify that each signature is from the City of Sturgeon Bay, something Frank did when she signed the Certification of Circulator that states, “I know the signers are electors of the jurisdiction or district the candidate seeks to represent.”

Because of this decision, Frank will not appear on the ballot, and she will now have to run as a write-in candidate. All other candidates who filed nomination papers, which includes current Sturgeon Bay Mayor David Ward, will appear on the ballot. 

UPDATE: 

On Tuesday afternoon, Frank announced that she was filing a formal complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission concerning her omission from the ballot. She says she returned the signatures on December 20th, more than two weeks before the nomination paper deadline.  Frank's campaign said they heard nothing from city hall in the days that followed, despite making several attempts. It was not until January 21st that she heard from Sturgeon Bay City Hall, past the statutory deadlines for certifying ballot access. "I wasn't given the chance to rectify the situation within the deadlines laid out by state statutes, but my campaign collected additional signatures that I could have turned in had I been given the opportunity or notified in a timely manner that an issue was present," Frank said. Frank's campaign says they were informed by the WEC that an official inquiry is justified. "I know that I followed state statutes and the process as it was laid out to me by the city clerk, but time and time again we ran into roadblocks that went unresolved," the campaign's statement read. You can read the full statement from the Frank campaign here.

Photo from Vote for Andrea Frank Facebook page.