“In its final decision, the justices concluded that it’s up to each voter — not the county clerks or anyone else — to decide if and when they qualify as indefinitely confined.”
So the voter can decide if they qualify so the votes will stand. Is this a way to still count those votes?
If the voter misrepresents they are indefinitely confined and they are not, that would be fraud. No?
“So the voter can decide if they qualify so the votes will stand. Is this a way to still count those votes?”
Voter has to justify his qualification.
Once the ballots are in there is no way to separate votes.
Many of them probably do not even exist or no longer reside in WI.
Frankly, that is how absentee ballot rules work in most states. In Virginia, before they changed the rules this year and allowed no-fault absentee ballots, you would just say that you expected to be out of town on election day, and you could vote absentee. If you later were NOT out of town, it didn’t matter. All that mattered is that you were willing to claim that you thought you would be.
At least once I had a business trip that was happening sometime in early November, so I voted absentee (early voting in person) just in case.
We generally do not care so much if valid voters go through the trouble of getting and casting an absentee ballot. The bigger issues have been sending ballots to everybody, not tracking them, not verifying they were filled out by the person. These are the real areas for fraud.