A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the controversial absentee ballot drop boxes widely used in the 2020 election are not allowed under state law; a decision that could dramatically impact voting in the swing state’s midterm elections — not to mention the 2024 presidential election — if the judge’s ruling stands.
As reported by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren, after hearing three hours of arguments, determined state law allows absentee ballots to be returned in person or by mail — However, not in the ballot box.
🚨BREAKING: A Wisconsin judge has ruled that the absentee ballot drop boxes widely deployed during the 2020 election are not allowed under state law, a decision that could dramatically impact voting ahead of the swing-state’s elections.#JustTheNewshttps://t.co/nBaTEvKDpB
— Just the News (@JustTheNews) January 14, 2022
Bohren ordered that the Wisconsin Elections Commission, (WEC), retract the instructions it had given to election officials about how to use drop-boxes. Bohren claimed the WEC was out of its rights in issuing this guidance. It was a “major policy decision that alters how our absentee ballot process operates,” Bohren said, that was significant enough that it should have required approval by the Wisconsin State Assembly.
“It’s all good and nice,” the judge explained, “but there’s no authority to do it.”
Judge rules against use of absentee ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin https://t.co/J6KlHStnfc pic.twitter.com/2hlJ7rBQvW
— The Hill (@thehill) January 14, 2022
So, what does the judge’s ruling change?
Bohren’s ruling barring the use of drop boxes — if it survives an almost-certain appeal — will affect how ballots can be returned in next month’s low-turnout primary for the spring elections. According to the Journal Sentinel, it could have far greater consequences for fall voting when more people vote.
It is important to note that the ruling does not allow voters to have absentee ballots returned for them by anyone else. (Again, Democrats hardest hit), which means political groups can’t pick up ballots for “voters” (wink-wink) and also prevent voters from giving their ballots to their spouses and neighbors to return for them.
(Why do I think the Democrats will somehow turn this into “systemic racism”?)
The decision could also prevent (Democrat) officials from holding events like “Democracy in the Park,” which Madison staged in 2020 to allow voters to return absentee ballots to poll workers who were stationed in parks.
The Journal Sentinel reported that a Racine County sheriff claimed his investigators found evidence of fraud in a nursing home. The sheriff, Christopher Schmaling, accused the Wisconsin Elections Commission of allowing — and even encouraging — nursing home staffers to fill out ballots on behalf of residents, adding that the state election statute “was in fact not just broken, but shattered.”
Incidentally isn’t it “curious” how Democrats run around like Chicken Little, histrionically wailing about “Voter suppression! Voter suppression!”, when time and time again, voter fraud — and Democrat-forced changes to election laws that make cheating easier — invariably land at the feet of the Democrats are themselvesWhat about the Republicans? Of course, rhetorical question.
Dems don’t like being happy. https://t.co/MD1nsyByYK
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 14, 2022
Assuming the judge’s ruling remains in place, it’s far from a panacea for all the problems wrought by relaxed absentee ballot laws. According to the Journal Sentinel many of Wisconsin’s drop boxes are secure and can only be tampered with by a 24-hour surveillance camera.
Although those boxes are no longer available for use, ballots can be dropped into more secure mailboxes on streets around the state. Also, it’s unclear how Judge Bohren’s ruling would be enforced. It is unclear how Judge Bohren’s ruling will be enforced. Many questions are raised.
The bottom line: The judge’s ruling was not only an important step in the right direction; it was also one more highly-publicized instance of Democrat overreach being nipped in the bud. That “nipping” must continue. Bigly.
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