Posted on 05/14/2024 7:01:18 AM PDT by Coronal
The Wisconsin Supreme Court seemed poised Monday to overturn a ruling it made less than two years ago that banned the use of most absentee ballot drop boxes in the state.
Doing so would effectively reinstate the use of most of those boxes across Wisconsin — a ruling that could have large ramifications on the 2024 presidential election in the crucial battleground.
In 2022, when conservatives had a 4-3 majority, the court ruled to significantly reduce the number of absentee ballot drop boxes in the state. But ideological control of the technically nonpartisan court flipped to liberals last year, setting in motion a chain of events that provided the court with the opportunity to reverse that ruling.
The four liberal justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court repeatedly signaled in Monday’s oral arguments they felt the court ruled incorrectly on the issue 22 months earlier, with many noting that state law is silent when it comes to the specific issue of drop boxes. Liberal justices on the bench used their time to speak to dismiss false claims by conservatives that the use of such boxes were sources of fraud in prior elections.
“Just to be clear, there’s nothing in the statutes that says that drop boxes are unauthorized or illegal,” said Jill Karofsky, a liberal justice on the court.
Karofsky, at another point, also pointed out that Wisconsin statutes “talk about the privilege of voting by absentee” but that such statutes also say that doing so “must be carefully regulated to prevent the potential for fraud or abuse,” eliciting an attorney for the progressive group that filed the suit to point out that “there’s absolutely no evidence that there was any fraud or abuse in 2020 due to ballot drop boxes.”
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Biden will win Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Nevada.
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Biden will win all 50 states in an unprecedented landslide ( with the help of millions and millions of illegal alien votes ).
As the saying goes, "This is what democracy looks like".
And it's true. Ballot harvesting, drop boxes, etc, etc. This IS what democracy looks like.
There it is.
Milwaukee filth and Madison scum ruin Wisconsin.
I do not understand why a STATE court has any “say” in a FEDERAL election.
Elections are run by the states, including Federal ones. This has it ever been.
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