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Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Ballot Drop Boxes Can Again Be Used
The New York Times ^ | July 5, 2024 | Mitch Smith

Posted on 07/05/2024 9:39:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s new liberal majority said on Friday that ballot drop boxes can once again be used widely in the state, reversing a ruling issued two years ago when the court had a conservative majority.

On a practical level, the ruling changes how Wisconsin, a closely divided state that could tip the Electoral College, will carry out an election that is just four months away. On a symbolic level, the judicial U-turn is likely to fuel Republican claims that the court has become a nakedly partisan force — claims that Democrats made themselves not long ago, when most of the justices were conservatives.

Drop boxes were used in Wisconsin for years as one of several ways, along with early in-person and mail-in voting, for voters to submit ballots before Election Day. The widespread use of drop boxes in 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic, drew the ire of Republicans and prompted a lawsuit that the court’s previous majority decided by mostly banning their use.

“Our decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes,” Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, a liberal, wrote for the four-justice majority on Friday. “It merely acknowledges,” she added, what Wisconsin law “has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of their statutorily conferred discretion.”

Her conservative colleague, Justice Rebecca Bradley, disagreed, writing in a dissent that “the majority again forsakes the rule of law in an attempt to advance its political agenda.”


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: stolenelection; votefraud
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1 posted on 07/05/2024 9:39:01 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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What a coincidence. And James Clyburn of SC just happened to visit WI the other day.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/03/james-clyburn-visits-10-key-precincts-for-ballot-collection-in-three-wisconsin-cities-madison-milwaukee-beloit-and-no-one-notices/


2 posted on 07/05/2024 9:43:16 AM PDT by libh8er
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3 posted on 07/05/2024 9:43:16 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Republicans need to cheat 10x the Dems.

Give Trump 12 billion votes.


4 posted on 07/05/2024 9:50:11 AM PDT by DarrellZero
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To: libh8er

Voting is only meaningful if voted same way. Regarding this ruling conservatives only got themselves to blame. Insisting one-person-one-vote is losing strategy when your opponent is democrats. As far as I can see, nothing in what democrats have been doing is beyond conservatives. Conservatives chose not to do it because of blah blah blah. In the end conservatives lose, election by election, eventually the country


5 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:18 AM PDT by Lee25 ( )
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To: libh8er; little jeremiah; bitt

What a coincidence. And James Clyburn of SC just happened to visit WI the other day.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/03/james-clyburn-visits-10-key-precincts-for-ballot-collection-in-three-wisconsin-cities-madison-milwaukee-beloit-and-no-one-notices/

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no coincidents


6 posted on 07/05/2024 9:51:35 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Stealing WI is critical for the Dems.


7 posted on 07/05/2024 9:55:59 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races you do not like.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DEMOCRATS ARE LAWLESS BECAUSE REPUBLICANS ARE BALLLESS !


8 posted on 07/05/2024 9:58:54 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Lee25

While Trump is gloating on social media over his debate performance and lead in the polls taken after, Democrats are laying the groundwork for the steal of 2024.


9 posted on 07/05/2024 10:03:40 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The fix is in. They rigged it so that Biden is going to win. But the problem is that nobody is going to buy it. Hence the urgency to get rid of him on the ballot.


10 posted on 07/05/2024 10:05:04 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Another steal is in place in Wisconsin


11 posted on 07/05/2024 10:16:47 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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What will the Wisconsin State Legislature do with their constitutional powers to determine the times, places and manner of elections?


12 posted on 07/05/2024 10:19:25 AM PDT by fso301
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To: DarrellZero

CHAIN OF EVIDENCE COMPLETELY DISREGARDED.


13 posted on 07/05/2024 10:19:28 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: fso301
Should have written:

What will the Wisconsin State Republican led Legislature do with their constitutional powers to determine the times, places and manner of elections?

14 posted on 07/05/2024 10:21:13 AM PDT by fso301
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

paper burns


15 posted on 07/05/2024 10:34:27 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: FlipWilson
The fix is in. They rigged it so that Biden is going to win. But the problem is that nobody is going to buy it. Hence the urgency to get rid of him on the ballot.

Hunter and Jill know that. So why would they want to lose their power by having Joe leave the White House?

They can cheat in MI, PA and WI, that'll give them 270.

16 posted on 07/05/2024 10:36:50 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The GOP better put the hustle on.


17 posted on 07/05/2024 10:40:40 AM PDT by lurk (u)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Ballot drop boxes should be destroyed on site.


18 posted on 07/05/2024 10:41:37 AM PDT by drypowder
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

....Wisconsin Supreme Court Says Ballot Drop Boxes Can Again Be Used...

Ew, disgusting!


19 posted on 07/05/2024 10:42:29 AM PDT by Honorary Serb
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To: drypowder

Post volunteers around them 24/7 and video anybody who drops off more than one ballot. That will neuter the ones paid to submit harvested/trafficked ballots.


20 posted on 07/05/2024 10:46:03 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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