Posted on 05/10/2024 4:23:12 PM PDT by lowbridge
A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Democrats that challenged Wisconsin’s witness requirements for absentee voting, a ruling that keeps the law in place with the presidential election six months away.
The rules for voting in Wisconsin are of heightened interest given its place as one of a handful of battleground presidential states. Four of the past six presidential elections in Wisconsin have been decided by less than a percentage point, including the past two.
U.S. District Court Judge James Peterson tossed the lawsuit Thursday, saying the fact that the law has stood unchallenged in one form or another since the 1960s was “telling.”
“It may be debatable whether the witness requirement is needed, but it is one reasonable way for the state to try to deter abuses such as fraud and undue influence in a setting where election officials cannot monitor the preparation of a ballot," Peterson wrote.
National Democratic law firm Elias Law Group, representing four Wisconsin voters, had argued that the state is violating the federal Voting Rights Act and Civil Rights Act by demanding a witness signature on ballot envelopes.
The voters argued that they have a hard time securing a witness signature because of health risk, age and frequent travel overseas.
State law requires clerks to reject absentee ballots that are missing a witness’ address or signature. A Wisconsin judge ruled in 2022 that elections officials cannot correct or fill in missing information on witness certifications, a practice known as ballot curing.
The Voting Rights Act prohibits states from requiring a voter to “prove his qualifications by the voucher of registered voters or members of any other class.”
The judge said the voters had not shown that either the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits
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Bfl
I wonder whether RICO could be applied to these four + Elias
Way to go, Wisconsin.
Anyone think the DEMs are done with this? I don’t.
Rat efforts to simplify vote fraud are unending
Correct decision, totally weak reasoning.
An Obama judge who was schooled at University of Wisconsin at Madison, the Berkeley of the Midwest.
Winning
True
They never stop
I’ve been telling you guys that Wisconsin has done a TON of work to clean thing up since the 2020 STEAL. TWO veto-proof amendments to our State Constitution which ‘We The People’ passed this past April, (No more ‘Zuckerbucks’ and NO outside interlopers on our elections. ELECTED Elections Officials are the only ones running the show, now!)
No ‘Ballot Drop Boxes’ here, there and everywhere! They are now ILLEGAL!
Stronger requirements to qualify for mail-in ballots. (Get off your @ss and VOTE if you’re able. If you’re in a vegetative state, you’re not voting! Period! No more culling ballots via nursing homes!)
Socialist Democrats are nervous, as they SHOULD be!
On, Wisconsin! :)
Too bad our weak knee’d Republicans in Michigan when they had control didn’t do the same. Thus allowing Whitmer and her clan to get elected. I don’t see how a Republican can win Governer in Michigan again.
They know they'll win their red districts overwhelmingly, and they can sit on their hands collecting their pay and bennies until a few weeks before the Michigan "elections", when they'll come out and shake their fists feebly at The Evil Democrats.
You Michiganders are gonna end up as the California of the Midwest after Governor Shinyface, Nazi Nessel and "Dirty Josey" Benson get through with the state.
Come on man.
How can the democrats cheat again with courts rulings against such?
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