{"id":1667023,"date":"2022-09-30T16:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1667023"},"modified":"2022-09-30T16:49:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T20:49:14","slug":"lawsuit-wisconsin-elections-commission-let-electors-change-votes-after-submitting-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-wisconsin-elections-commission-let-electors-change-votes-after-submitting-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit: Wisconsin Elections Commission Let Electors Change Votes After Submitting 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%2Flawsuit-wisconsin-elections-commission-let-electors-change-votes-after-submitting-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=1667023&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><\/div>\n<p>Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) filed a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riteusa.org\/wisconsin-spoiling-ballot-tro-brief\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0against the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) last week over its unlawful guidance allowing absentee voters to change their votes after their ballots are cast.<\/p>\n<p>In an Aug. 1, 2022, memorandum sent to all Wisconsin municipal clerks, WEC instructed that after a voter submits an absentee ballot, he can request to \u201cspoil\u201d that ballot and receive a new one if he changes his mind or makes a mistake. Furthermore, in an Aug. 2 memo, WEC allows clerks to \u201cinvalidate\u201d a \u201cspoiled ballot\u201d on behalf of the voter.<\/p>\n<p>Such guidance violates Wisconsin statute, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.legis.wisconsin.gov\/statutes\/statutes\/6\/iv\/86\/5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">states<\/a>\u00a0that a voter possesses the exclusive authority to spoil his absentee ballot\u00a0<em>before\u00a0<\/em>it is submitted, not after. If the voter spoils his absentee ballot before he casts it, he must return the ballot to the clerk (who then destroys it) and request a new one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With WEC\u2019s new guidance, however, a clerk may invalidate a \u201cspoiled\u201d ballot on behalf of the voter, thereby increasing the potential for fraud or abuse in the absentee voting process. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRITE is working to protect Wisconsinites from unfair and unequal election procedures,\u201d RITE\u2019s President and CEO Derek Lyons said in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/riteusa.org\/rite-initiates-wisconsin-lawsuit-to-protect-voters-from-unlawful-ballot-practices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a>. \u201cOnce a vote is cast, it is cast. Period. WEC is breaking the law and courting disaster by allowing individuals to retrieve their cast ballots and alter their votes. The discretion WEC gives to local officials undermines the integrity of the ballot box and disrupts the uniform and transparent administration of elections throughout the Badger State.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>RITE is asking the Waukesha County Circuit Court for immediate injunctive relief \u201cprior to the start of absentee ballot voting for the November 8, 2022, election.\u201d The election integrity group is suing on behalf of Wisconsin voter Nancy Kormanik and her right to fair and equal treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020 election, Wisconsin processed nearly 2 million absentee ballots statewide.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Victoria Marshall is a staff writer at The Federalist. Her writing has been featured in the New York Post, National Review, and Townhall. She graduated from Hillsdale College in May 2021 with a major in politics and a minor in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @vemrshll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) filed a\u00a0lawsuit\u00a0against the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) last week over its unlawful guidance allowing absentee voters to change their votes after their ballots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1130,"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-1667023","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\/1667023","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\/1130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1667023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1667023\/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=1667023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1667023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1667023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}