In July Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin voted to suspend a Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) rule that allowed state county clerks to fill in and proper ballots with incorrect or lacking info in order that they may very well be counted.
This WEC rule had been in impact since 2016. It permits clerks to treatment mail-in poll info with out contacting the voters first. f they noticed a poll with incomplete or inaccurate info they may simply fill within the envelope themself.
The Joint Committee for Evaluation and Administrative Guidelines within the Wisconsin Legislature voted alongside occasion traces 6-4 to droop this WEC observe that clearly allowed for the probability of fraudulent votes to be counted.
However later that very same day the Wisconsin Elections Fee introduced they may violate the regulation and order county clerks to proceed to fill in and repair incorrect or incomplete ballots!
However earlier immediately, on Wednesday, a Wisconsin choose dominated that state regulation doesn’t permit election clerks to fill in lacking info on witness certification envelopes that comprise absentee ballots.
FOX 11 News reported:
A Wisconsin choose on Wednesday dominated that state regulation doesn’t permit election clerks to fill in lacking info on witness certification envelopes that comprise absentee ballots, delivering a victory to Republicans 9 weeks earlier than the election within the battleground state.
The lawsuit, backed by the GOP-controlled Legislature, is the newest transfer by Republicans to tighten restrictions on absentee voting within the swing state the place Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republican Sen. Ron Johnson are on the poll in November.
Waukesha County Circuit Choose Michael Aprahamian on Wednesday granted GOP motions to instantly block the observe, often called poll curing. The case is anticipated to finally go to the conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court docket, which in July ruled that absentee ballot drop boxes located outside of clerk offices are illegal.
The case will now probably head to the conservative-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court docket.
Hat Tip Jefferson Davis
