{"id":1414368,"date":"2022-04-01T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414368"},"modified":"2022-04-01T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T12:00:14","slug":"some-election-managers-ignore-wisconsin-supreme-courts-ruling-on-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/some-election-managers-ignore-wisconsin-supreme-courts-ruling-on-absentee-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Election Managers Ignore Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s Ruling on Absentee Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsome-election-managers-ignore-wisconsin-supreme-courts-ruling-on-absentee-ballots%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1414368&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2020-10\/GettyImages-1281324836.jpg?h=199d8c1f&#038;itok=f1b0HVU3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>There are different rules for returning absentee ballots in some Wisconsin communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court in February reinstated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/wisconsin-democrats-blast-judge-s-ruling-that-nixes-ballot-drop-boxes-ballot-harvesting\/article_3195a6a8-756d-11ec-a0bc-cb79e3c14ae8.html\">an order from a Waukesha County judge<\/a> that banned ballot drop boxes and stated that voters can only return their own ballot to the polling place or elections office.<\/p>\n<p>But the League of Wisconsin Municipalities said in a letter to local election managers that ruling isn\u2019t binding for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, each clerk will need to decide what to do, taking into consideration both state and federal law, the different ways the absentee ballot statute can be interpreted, and the risks of choosing one option over another,\u201d the letter from League lawyers said. \u201cClerks who refuse to accept absentee ballots delivered by third parties on behalf of disabled electors may face claims they effectively prevented those voters from voting and face litigation under the federal Voting Rights Act (VRA) and Americans with Disabilities Act, or both.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For next Tuesday\u2019s election, that means some communities are allowing people to return ballots from other voters.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee Election Commission Executive Director Claire Woodall-Vogg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbs58.com\/news\/if-you-put-your-ballot-in-here-it-wont-be-counted-court-order-creates-confusion-for-clerks-voters-ahead-of-april-5th\">told a Milwaukee TV station<\/a> that she doesn\u2019t really ask questions of voters who return extra ballots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no requirement to show proof of ID when returning a ballot and we are not asking for any other proof,\u201d Woodall-Vogg said.<\/p>\n<p>She said they may ask if someone is \u201cassisting\u201d another voter by returning their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Woodall-Vogg suggested there would be fewer questions about who is returning ballots if Wisconsin election managers could use ballot drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many people relied on absentee ballot drop boxes in previous elections,\u201d Woodall-Vogg said.<\/p>\n<p>Drop boxes were first used in the spring election in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Wisconsin say the drop boxes were hotbeds of ballot harvesting.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Janel Brandtjen, R-Menomonee Falls, said data shows \u201c138 people visited drop boxes 3,568 times in the days and weeks before the November election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Supreme Court is set to decide the question of ballot drop boxes, and likely the rules for absentee ballot returns, after they hear arguments in the case on April 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are different rules for returning absentee ballots in some Wisconsin communities.The Wisconsin Supreme Court in February reinstated an order from a Waukesha County judge that banned ballot drop boxes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}