{"id":1434513,"date":"2022-04-13T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1434513"},"modified":"2022-04-13T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:00:32","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-ballot-drop-boxes-and-absentee-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-ballot-drop-boxes-and-absentee-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Arguments on Ballot Drop Boxes and Absentee Ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fwisconsin-supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-ballot-drop-boxes-and-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=1434513&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\/2022-01\/gettyimages-1229312707-594x594.jpg?h=a5f2f23a&#038;itok=LOuG1Kcv\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Wisconsin should soon have an answer about ballot drop boxes and just who can return absentee ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday morning in the case Richard Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission.<\/p>\n<p>It is the challenge to the Elections Commission\u2019s guidance to local election managers that voters can drop off their ballots, or ballots from other voters at drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[State law] says there are only two ways to return an absentee ballot, you mail it or you deliver it in-person to the clerk. And a drop box is neither of those, which is why they\u2019re not allowed, \u201d Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty senior counsel Luke Berg told The Center Square. \u201cBut the other side says \u2018Well, ya know it doesn\u2019t say clearly that you can\u2019t have a drop box.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WILL is arguing the case.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin has been waiting for a final decision on drop boxes and absentee ballots for months.<\/p>\n<p>A Waukesha County judge back in January ruled drop boxes are not allowed under state law, but the case was appealed and in February the Appeals Court allowed counties and cities to use them during the February primary. The Wisconsin Supreme Court then banned them for the April election, pending their decision in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Though a handful of cities, including Milwaukee, continued to use drop boxes during the April election as well.<\/p>\n<p>Berg said Wednesday\u2019s argument should settle the question once and for all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be the final decision from the court on both ballot drop boxes and ballot harvesting. We should get an answer on both of those questions,\u201d Berg explained. \u201cNow, the other side has some arguments as to why the court shouldn\u2019t answer those questions now. They say [WILL doesn&#8217;t] have standing, and we should have gone a different procedural route. But I highly doubt the court will go that route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin\u2019s Supreme Court has a conservative majority on paper, but swing Justice Brian Hagedorn has often ruled with the court\u2019s liberals. Hagedorn sided with the conservatives on the most recent ballot drop box ruling.<\/p>\n<p>The hearing comes as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/04\/12\/absentee-ballots-handled-inconsistently-after-supreme-court-ruling\/7280367001\/\">reported<\/a> on Tuesday that communities handled ballot drop boxes and absentee ballots differently during last week\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The Court\u2019s Ruling could also impact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/racine-state-senator-files-ballot-harvesting-complaint-with-wisconsin-elections-commission\/article_b11bb768-b51a-11ec-82af-dfc07779eaec.html\">an Election Day challenge<\/a> from Sen. Van Wanggaard, R-Racine, tclaiming Racine\u2019s decision to allow voters to return other people\u2019s ballots essentially disenfranchised some voters in the county.<\/p>\n<p>The high court will hear arguments in the case Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin should soon have an answer about ballot drop boxes and just who can return absentee ballots.The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Wednesday morning in the case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1434513","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\/1434513","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=1434513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434513\/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=1434513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}