Posted on 09/24/2023 7:54:50 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
Wisconsin Public Radio reports, “The majority decision was written by Justice Rebecca Bradley and joined by the rest of the court’s conservative majority, including swing Justice Brian Hagedorn.”
“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.”
Additionally, voters must personally deliver absentee ballots to the clerk’s office. Others, including roommates and spouses, will not be allowed to deliver ballots for them.
“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.
Liberals on the court argued in their dissent that the ruling would make it harder for people to vote.
“Although it pays lip service to the import of the right to vote, the majority/lead opinion has the practical effect of making it more difficult to exercise it,” wrote Justice Ann Walsh Bradley. “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.”
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Well that will pis off the DemocRATs..... how the hell they gonna get dead people to vote???
One day of voting is rather restrictive. I’d say better for two, three, or four days, some group of Thurs-Sun. That gives everyone a weekday, weekend, and day or night to vote. No excuses. Let County sheriff run the sites, augmented by National / State Guard. Fills up one drill weekend.Military and law enforcement are much more likely trustworthy trustees of ballot security and handling.
Absentee is limited to deployed military. Mayyybe a bit more like the hospital-confined or such, but you’d have to argue that for me to accept it.
And of course purple finger dye, ID, regular clearing of rolls/re-registerinc, and so on.
Of course It could be that I fell for another old story tricked out as Breaking News like the WI drop boxes. (These are taken from Telegram posts from a poster who re-posts old stories as new articles without dating them.)
It should be hard to vote,the Right to it was paid for in Blood!
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