Posted on 02/11/2022 7:10:54 PM PST by conservative98
Voters won’t be able to use drop boxes, nor may they let someone else mail or return their absentee ballot to clerks in the April general election.
MADISON, Wis. (CN) — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday declined to extend, through an upcoming April election, a stay of a recent lower court order banning the use of absentee ballot drop boxes and the return of an absentee ballot by someone other than the voter.
The decision casts further doubt on these election practices in future Wisconsin elections, including consequential contests for a U.S. Senate seat and the governorship this fall.
Taxpayers represented by conservative nonprofit law firm Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) sued in June 2021 over guidance memos the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued in March and August 2020 allowing absentee ballots to be returned to unstaffed drop boxes in a voter’s municipality instead of being mailed or returned to a clerk and allowing third parties to return a voter’s absentee ballot.
Wisconsin state law is silent on the explicit legality of drop boxes. The voting method exploded as a safe absentee alternative for voters amid the coronavirus pandemic, particularly during the 2020 general election, during which more than 2 million absentee ballots were cast throughout the state.
Opponents of drop boxes say state law permits only two legal ways to vote absentee in Wisconsin: either a voter can mail the ballot themselves, or they can return it to the municipal clerk’s office themselves. Any other method involving drop boxes or another person returning someone else’s ballot is illegal and invites fraud
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That’s racist or homophobic or something!
Primary-does it matter?
Good news.
Just because there’s a law or a ruling doesn’t mean anyone’s going to enforce it.
If anyone knows about that, it would be the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
That is now Plugs got the Rat Party nomination.
Hmmmmmm! Vote harvesting.
Mark Zuckyberg would spend another $400 million to help “fortify” this year’s elections but he’s down just a tad over at Broke Woke Facebook ($250 billion give or take).
I’ve fantasized about dropping envelopes filled with dog shit into those bins.
And everyone at the Wisconsin Elections Commission who was involved in this needs to be on their way to Jail. The actual law is clear on that.
But of course they in the protected class.
Last April a lefty prevailed in April Elmbrook School Board Election via a massive surge in absentees dropped off the day before.
Getting rid of this will now have both sides playing same set of rules
Last April a lefty prevailed in April Elmbrook School Board Election via a massive surge in absentees dropped off the day before.
Getting rid of this will now have both sides playing same set of rules
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