{"id":2289580,"date":"2024-07-05T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-swing-state-win-reverses-ballot-drop-box-order\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:08:07","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-swing-state-win-reverses-ballot-drop-box-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-swing-state-win-reverses-ballot-drop-box-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Hands Democrats a Swing State Win, Reverses Ballot Drop Box Order"},"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\">28<\/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-hands-democrats-a-swing-state-win-reverses-ballot-drop-box-order%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=2289580&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>The Wisconsin Supreme Court, now with a liberal majority, has overturned a previous ruling and allowed the \u200buse of \u2062drop boxes for absentee ballots in upcoming elections. This\u200c decision has sparked controversy, with conservatives criticizing the \u200cmove as a setback for election integrity. The dissenting judges \u200dargue that the ruling is politically motivated and undermines trust in the fairness of elections. The\u200c decision to allow drop boxes has \u2063generated debate over the role of the courts in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maine-official-withdraws-trump-ballot-ban\/\" title=\"Maine official retracts Trump ballot ban\">shaping election laws<\/a> \u200band procedures.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"> <?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/news\/\">  News <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/russdavis\/%20\"><span>Jack Davis<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   July 5, 2024 at 11:28am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Two years after a Wisconsin Supreme Court with a conservative majority banned the use of drop boxes for absentee ballots, a court with a liberal majority threw out that ruling just in time for the election season.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-3 decision means <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-issues-major-ruling-ballot-drop-boxes-changed-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">drop boxes<\/a> can be used for the swing state\u2019s Aug. 13 primaries and Nov. 5 general election, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2024\/07\/05\/wisconsin-supreme-court-reinstates-absentee-ballot-drop-boxes\/74292359007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The court had a conservative majority prior to the 2023 elections, when it became a 4-3 liberal court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes. It merely acknowledges what (state law) has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of their statutorily-conferred discretion,\u201d Justice Ann Walsh Bradley wrote in the majority opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Although drop boxes were used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-interaction-wisconsin-police-officers-triggers-touch-leftists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wisconsin<\/a> for decades prior to 2020, in that year, when states flooded the market with absentee ballots amid the COVID-19 pandemic, drop boxes became a focal point in the national debate over their potential to contribute to election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin GOP Chairman Brian Schimming said the ruling was \u201ca setback for both the separation of powers and public trust in our elections\u201d courtesy of \u201cthe left-wing justices on the Supreme Court of Wisconsin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis latest attempt by leftist justices to placate their far-left backers will not go unanswered by voters,\u201d Schimming said.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Rebecca Bradley wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&#038;seqNo=822752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dissent<\/a> joined by two other conservative judges that the liberal majority \u201cagain forsakes the rule of law in an attempt to advance its political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority ends the term by loosening the legislature\u2019s regulations governing the privilege of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-bans-gop-account-allows-inflammatory-dnc-ads\/\" title=\"Facebook bans GOP account, allows inflammatory DNC ads\">absentee voting<\/a> in the hopes of tipping the scales in future elections,\u201d Bradley wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Bradley said that the ruling was a setback to efforts to assure Americans that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/historian-predicted-9-last-10-presidential-elections-gives-grave-warning-biden-huge-mistake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elections<\/a> are fair.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIntense partisan politics saturate our nation, exacerbated by a lack of institutional trust. The legitimacy of elections continues to be questioned, each side accusing the other of \u2018election interference\u2019 \u00a0and \u2018threatening democracy\u2019 or even the very foundation of our constitutional republic. The majority\u2019s decision in this case will only fuel the fires of suspicion,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>She wrote that the 2022 decision <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/secure-election-ever-21-2020-mail-voters-admit-participating-election-fraud-poll\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">banning<\/a> drop boxes was overturned \u201cnot because it is legally erroneous, but because the majority finds it politically inconvenient. The majority\u2019s activism marks another triumph of political power over legal principle in this court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJudicial elections do not change the law,\u201d she wrote, adding, \u201cThis court has made clear a change in the membership of this court is an illegitimate basis for reconsidering a prior decision \u2014 and at least two members of the majority have emphatically reiterated that point in their earlier writings, only to forsake the principle with alacrity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bradley said state law, which is silent on drop boxes, offers voters two choices \u2014 to vote in person or deliver a ballot to a clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The law, she wrote, \u201cdoes not contemplate in person absentee voting at a location other than the office of the municipal clerk or an alternate site, and the explicit rules for alternate sites leave no reasonable room for in person absentee voting at any other locations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe majority would have us believe that buried within four innocuous words, \u2018to the municipal clerk,\u2019 is a delegation of vast power to municipal clerks to create an absentee voting regime unlike anything resembling the law,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>At least 29 other states allow for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-urge-dismissal-of-doj-lawsuit-against-georgia-election-law\/\" title=\"House Republicans Urge Dismissal Of DOJ Lawsuit Against Georgia Election Law\">absentee ballot drop boxes<\/a>, the US Vote Foundation said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/07\/05\/politics\/wisconsin-supreme-court-ballot-boxes\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<div>\n<p><b><i>An Important Message from Our Staff:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span>We who work here at The Western Journal have fought for years against Big Tech and the elites who want to shut us down and then shut America down. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Make no mistake \u2014 nothing will be the same after November 2024. 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