{"id":1600009,"date":"2022-08-10T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T00:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1600009"},"modified":"2022-08-10T20:18:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T00:18:42","slug":"conservative-group-says-wisconsin-voting-van-violates-neutrality-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/conservative-group-says-wisconsin-voting-van-violates-neutrality-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservative Group Says Wisconsin Voting Van Violates Neutrality Rules"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fconservative-group-says-wisconsin-voting-van-violates-neutrality-rules%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=1600009&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--><p>A city van for voting visited majority-Democrat vicinities of Racine, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wisconsin\">Wisconsin<\/a>, more often than it visited Republican ones, a complaint by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law &#038; Liberty (WILL) said.<\/p>\n<p>This violation of voting laws must not be vindicated, wrote WILL deputy counsel, Anthony LoCoco.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRacine\u2019s use of mobile voting sites violates clear directives in state law on the collection of absentee ballots at alternative sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWEC [Wisconsin Elections Commission] must make clear that Racine is violating the law and ensure that clerks across the state understand what is and is not permitted in Wisconsin law,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>As of now, the city plans to use the voting van again in November\u2019s midterm election.<\/p>\n<p> Voting Violations <\/p>\n<p>The voting van violated a variety of statutes, WILL\u2019s analysis wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Under Wisconsin law, absentee voters must send votes to the office of the municipal clerk, or an alternative site near to the clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>But Racine used a voting van to collect absentee primary votes from 21 locations across the city, WILL said.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the areas of Racine where the voting van ventured advantaged Democrats, it said.<\/p>\n<p>A study by WILL alleged that Democratic districts got more voting van locations than Republican ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe city of Racine assigned more potential mobile voting locations to wards that vote at the highest percentage for Democrats,\u201d the study stated.<\/p>\n<p>Under Wisconsin law, absentee voting locations that give one party an advantage are illegal, regardless of why they occur, the complaint noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of the 21 alternate sites advantage the Democratic Party and some advantage the Republican Party. Collectively, however, the sites used by \u2026 [Racine\u2019s city clerk Tara] McMenamin afforded an advantage to the Democratic Party,\u201d WILL\u2019s complaint said.<\/p>\n<p>The voting van also left votes vulnerable, the <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022-08-10-Racine-Complaint-FINAL.pdf\">complaint<\/a> alleged.<\/p>\n<p>WILL said the city kept ballots in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city van for voting visited majority-Democrat vicinities of Racine, Wisconsin, more often than it visited Republican ones, a complaint by the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law &#038; Liberty (WILL) said. This violation of voting laws must not be vindicated, wrote WILL deputy counsel, Anthony LoCoco. \u201cRacine\u2019s use of mobile voting sites violates clear directives [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":259,"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-1600009","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\/1600009","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\/259"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1600009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1600009\/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=1600009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1600009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1600009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}