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Democrats filed a lawsuit on Thursday to allow Wisconsin voters to return absentee ballots in drop boxes, moving to overturn a decision from the previous conservative-controlled state Supreme Court last year. The suit was filed against the Wisconsin Elections Commission by the national firm Elias Law Group, which leans Democrat. Attorneys argue the ban “burdens the right to vote”, and forces voters to depend on the United States Postal Service’s “unsecured mailboxes.” The Democrats are challenging the state Supreme Court’s ruling to bar the use of absentee ballot drop boxes after former President Donald Trump alleged absentee voting contained fraudulent...

Wisconsin is a case study in the kind of ho-hum execution of elections that chips away at Americans' confidence in our elections. After a 10-month review of the 2020 election in the Dairy State, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty has compiled its findings — which set off alarm bells about the state’s massive election integrity shortcomings and reveal weaknesses the swing state must shore up before the next election. The review, which WILL said it approached “without presumption as to what it would find,” included polling, surveys, an inspection of the law, interviews with elected officials, an analysis...

The Racine County Sheriff's Office announced that it will file criminal charges against five of the six members of the Wisconsin Election Commission. Sheriff Schmaling recommended charges to Racine County District Attorney Patricia Hanson for Commissioners Margaret Bostelmann, Julie Glancey, Ann Jacobs, Dean Knudson, and Mark Thomsen. The charges for each commissioner include two felonies and three misdemeanors. According to the sheriff department's Facebook post, the charges include misconduct in public office, election fraud, and other alleged crimes. Schmaling's office has requested Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul investigate alleged illegal directives issued by the commission, particularly not to use the...

MILWAUKEE -- Prosecutors have charged a 17-year-old Illinois teen accused of shooting three people during a protest in southeastern Wisconsin this summer with violating curfew that night. Kyle Rittenhouse was charged in August with multiple counts, including reckless and intentional homicide, endangerment and being a minor in possession of a firearm. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that prosecutors added violating curfew the night of the shootings to the list of charges on Monday. The offense is a civil citation punishable by forfeiture.

Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Brian Hagedorn, a conservative, explained his ruling against a contest-of-election lawsuit brought in the state by President Donald Trump’s campaign.In an interview with The New York Times on Friday, Hagedorn said he found nothing in the law or the evidence presented in the case that would have allowed Trump to win the lawsuit.A narrowly divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Dec. 14 rejected Trump’s lawsuit challenging the election results in the battleground state about an hour before the Electoral College cast Wisconsin’s 10 votes for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. In the 4-3 ruling, the court’s three...

If the state senator was in the field working, she certainly was not ‘indefinitely confined’ under the meaning and intent of state statute. So, did she break the law? How many others did?MADISON, Wis. — Outgoing Wisconsin state Sen. Patty Schachtner, a full-time county medical examiner, earlier this year claimed to be “indefinitely confined,” receiving the special status accorded under state election law. The Democrat and her husband signed a statement claiming they were confined to their home “because of age, physical illness or infirmity” in seeking an absentee ballot to be automatically sent to their Somerset home. It begs...

The majority opinion was written by Justice Brian Hagedorn who analogized the Trump election contest to challenging a play in a football game after the contest was over and the score went final. The opinion is pure sophistry that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, himself, would find it difficult to top. After putting forward this ridiculous opinion, Justice Hagedorn added a concurring opinion agreeing with his own decision! What made this unusual move doubly bizarre is that Hagedorn preceded to relate that numerous mistakes and errors were made by election officials and Wisconsin laws were broken in the process....

The 538 members of the Electoral College are meeting today to cast ballots for president based on the election results in their states, formalizing Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory. This year, Mr. Biden won states with 306 electoral votes, and President Trump won 232. Despite Mr. Trump’s refusal to concede defeat, every state has certified its election results and appointed electors pledged to the candidate who carried its votes.

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While most of the nation is looking to the U.S. Supreme Court on major election issues, the Wisconsin Supreme Court may be the first domino to fall in favor of the President's reelection. The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed to hear a the President’s voter fraud case hours after it was shot down by a lower court. And while most in the political world are watching the U.S. Supreme Court very closely, the Wisconsin case may be the best bet for a Trump win as the first major domino to fall in his advantage after the Texas case was dismissed by...

Regarding the Texas lawsuit against PA,WI, MI and GA there has been much speculation that AJs Alito and Thomas will provide solid support, but Kavanaugh and Gorsuch may waiver. Their opinions supporting denial of the stay of a lower court order blocking efforts to extend the deadline for mail in ballot returns in Wisconsin are very illuminating and show that they, in particular are steadfast patriots. In the opinions supporting denial of a stay of the lower court order Gorsuch [joined by Kavanugh] makes his views clear. Here is what AJ Gorsuch wrote in part: The Constitution provides that state...

8:17 pm CDT October 26, 2020 MADISON - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Wisconsin's voting laws Monday, rejecting an effort to require the counting of absentee ballots that are sent back to election officials on or just before Election Day. The court's 5-3 ruling means that absentee ballots will be counted only if they are in the hands of municipal clerks by the time polls close on Nov. 3. The justices determined the courts shouldn't be the ones to decide the election rules amid the coronavirus pandemic that is surging in Wisconsin and across the world. "The Constitution provides that...

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Nearly 7 million absentee votes were cast, mostly for Joe Biden, in the three states responsible for his presumptive win; a mere 250,000 votes now separate Biden from Donald Trump in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.Trump’s victory in that once solid “blue wall” in 2016—Wisconsin last elected a Republican president in 1984—shocked the nation and elevated him to the presidency. The pivotal Rust Belt states have something else in common: according to state election laws, mail-in ballots cannot be processed prior to 7 a.m. on Election Day. (Michigan has a slight caveat for larger cities, which allows ballot inspection to begin...