Guidance issued by the Wisconsin Elections Commission resulted in municipal clerks filling out missing witness addresses on absentee ballot certificates, contrary to the plain language of the state law, according to Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice. Wisconsin’s statute requires each absentee ballot to be accompanied by a certificate signed by a witness who must write down his or her address. “If a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted,” the law states. The Wisconsin Elections Commission appears to have disregarded the statute when, in October, it formally instructed clerks and...