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Judge rules absentee ballot drop boxes cannot be used in Wisconsin
The Hill ^ | 1/13/22 | Caroline Vakil

Posted on 01/14/2022 1:57:22 AM PST by Libloather

Absentee ballot drop boxes can no longer be used in Wisconsin, a judge ruled on Thursday as the state prepares for spring and fall elections.

Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren said that absentee ballots could not be returned through drop boxes, saying “there's no authority to do it,” the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. However, Bohren said that state law does allow for absentee ballots to be mailed back or handed in in-person.

That ruling follows a lawsuit that was filed by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) on behalf of two individuals in June. The lawsuit said that the Wisconsin Elections Commission had incorrectly interpreted election statues as to allow for drop boxes to be used for absentee ballots, saying that “only legally cast votes should count and counting illegally cast votes diminishes the value of those cast legally.”

The lawsuit also claimed that there were only two ways for absentee ballots to be dropped off - by hand or by mail, though the Wisconsin Elections Commission’s attorneys argued that the state law could be open to a wider interpretation of those rules, according to the Journal Sentinel.

A deputy counsel for WILL praised the judge’s decision.

“The guidance from the Wisconsin Elections Commission on absentee ballot drop boxes was unlawful. There are just two legal methods to cast an absentee ballot in Wisconsin: through the mail or in-person at a clerk’s office. And voters must return their own ballots,” WILL deputy counsel Luke Berg said in a statement. “We are pleased the court made this clear, providing Wisconsin voters with certainty for forthcoming elections.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: absentee; ballots; elections; wisconsin
Illegal voting? That really happens? C'mon man.
1 posted on 01/14/2022 1:57:22 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Keep an eye out for angry speeding vehicles in Waukesha.


2 posted on 01/14/2022 2:07:45 AM PST by MDLION (J"Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: Libloather

That’s very good news. Too bad it only applies to Wisconsin and not other States.


3 posted on 01/14/2022 2:08:24 AM PST by be-baw
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To: Libloather

If Republicans can oust Evers from the Governor’s mansion, they can pass real election integrity laws in Wisconsin. The one loophole they allowed for absentee voting which was intended for a few bedridden grannies was massively abused last time around. It went from 20,000 to over 200,000 suddenly. Zuckerberg money flowed in and his out of state Leftist “consultants” took over the vote count in a few places. There was obvious voting fraud in nursing homes when mentally incompetent Seniors suddenly and magically “voted” for the first time in many years in several cases. Milwaukee of course forgot how to count until seeing exactly how many ballots were needed. The vote count was stopped in the middle of the night and they claimed they were going home....only to start up again an hour or so later when there was a massive vote dump in favor of Biden.

All of this must be banned. Incredibly strict limits on any absentee ballots. No drop boxes at all. No ballot harvesting. Every precinct to report how many ballots they have at the end of every day. No ballots received after the deadline may count. No private donations to any single precincts to conduct elections. No non state officials to participate. A right to meaningfully observe the vote count. An election audit by outside auditors required after every election and the results to be published publicly. Voter rolls must be strictly purged and then maintained.

All the massive fraud of the last election must be made impossible to ever happen again in Wisconsin.


4 posted on 01/14/2022 2:23:39 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: Libloather

That’s one...


5 posted on 01/14/2022 2:36:44 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Libloather

FINALLY!!!!


6 posted on 01/14/2022 2:41:24 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: FLT-bird

Waukesha, Washington and other heavy R counties need to hold back check and recheck vote counts to verify accuracy and release vetted totals ONLY after Dane and Milwaukee Co finish reporting.

There must be a hard deadline for complete vote count after polls close.


7 posted on 01/14/2022 3:22:14 AM PST by slapshot (Coke wants me to act less white? Well I will not purchase Coke Products- Get woke go broke-)
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To: Libloather
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge is pretty far down on the judiciary chain. I would suspect, the Democrats & their Republican allies are already shopping for a state circuit judge to over rule this one.
Probably by the middle of next week, the new judge will be pontificating about minority voters rights and how without absentee ballot drop boxes those rights will be completely destroyed in a return to the days of Jim Crow.
8 posted on 01/14/2022 4:12:58 AM PST by Tupelo
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To: Libloather

These days, “absentee” ballots are just another term for fraudulent votes vomited into the broken system by who knows who.


9 posted on 01/14/2022 4:18:29 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Libloather

They used COVID to countermand election laws last time. They’ll try it again.


10 posted on 01/14/2022 4:19:33 AM PST by randita
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To: be-baw

Biden’s authoritarianism will blackmail ‘states’ who do not follow the mandates and anything else they can come up with, including voting... only votes from drops, only vaccination proof for in-person voting....etc.

IRS will require same. You name it. There’s many things the left can screw America with. Just hope all these illegals see the whole picture. That’s just a small part but it’s something.


11 posted on 01/14/2022 9:09:43 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: Libloather

After doing nothing so the Dems could steal the election, now the RINOs will do something because it might affect them somehow, but continue to do nothing to reverse the fraudulent 2020 election certification.


12 posted on 01/15/2022 4:00:46 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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