The Wisconsin Supreme Court has banned absentee ballot drop boxes in the state, so they will not be able to use them no matter what happens with COVID. Justice Rebecca Bradley and the court's conservative majority, including swing Justice Brian Hagedorn, ruled on the issue in 2022.
"Nothing in the statutory language detailing the procedures by which absentee ballots may be cast mentions drop boxes or anything like them," Bradley wrote in the ruling.
"WEC's staff may have been trying to make voting as easy as possible during the pandemic, but whatever their motivations, WEC must follow Wisconsin statutes," Bradley continued.
"Good intentions never override the law." How To Join The "Secret Boycott" Patriots Are Using To Crush Woke Corporations Additionally, voters must personally deliver absentee ballots to the clerk's office.
"Reading the election statutes in context and as a whole, we conclude an absentee ballot delivered in person must be delivered personally by the voter," Bradley wrote.
"A ballot drop box is a simple and perfectly legal solution to make voting easier, especially in the midst of a global pandemic. But it is apparently a bridge too far for a majority of this court." WPR reported at the time: According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, there were 528 drop boxes in use in the 2020 presidential election spread across 430 municipalities.
The state's Democrat Governor Tony Evers condemned the ruling in a post to X. "Today's decision is another in a long line of Wisconsin Republicans' successes to make it harder for Wisconsinites to exercise their right to vote, to undermine our free, fair, and secure elections, and to threaten our democracy," Evers wrote.
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