The latest came Wednesday when the Legislature's Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) killed an emergency rule from the Elections Commission that would have allowed local election clerks to correct mistakes on voters' absentee ballots.
The Commission said clerks don't have to contact voters, and could instead rely on their own information to fill in missing pieces or addresses.
If a certificate is flawed, the clerks have two choices: send it back to the voter or not count it.
- The latest came Wednesday when the Legislature’s Joint Committee
for the Review of Administrative Rules killed an emergency rule from
the Elections Commission that would have allowed local election clerks
to correct mistakes on voters’ absentee ballots, a process otherwise
known as curing.
- Nass said if the Elections Commission or anyone
else wants to allow clerks to make changes on absentee ballots, they
need to go through the legislature and change the law.
- Steve Nass, R-Whitewater, said the problem is not allowing clerks to fill in
missing information, rather the problem is that the Elections Commission
is ignoring current state law.
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