{"id":2290349,"date":"2024-07-08T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-leftists-get-what-they-paid-for-in-drop-box-ruling-flip-flop\/"},"modified":"2024-07-08T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T12:12:45","slug":"wi-leftists-get-what-they-paid-for-in-drop-box-ruling-flip-flop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wi-leftists-get-what-they-paid-for-in-drop-box-ruling-flip-flop\/","title":{"rendered":"WI Leftists Get What They Paid For In Drop Box Ruling Flip-Flop"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwi-leftists-get-what-they-paid-for-in-drop-box-ruling-flip-flop%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=2290349&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 leftist-controlled\u200b Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a previous \u2064ruling and\u2063 endorsed the use of <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>, opening\u2062 the door to election \u2062shenanigans in the state. This decision, coincidentally released on the same day as President Joe \u2063Biden&#8217;s\u2062 visit to Wisconsin, overturns a 2022 ruling \u2063that deemed \u2062the widespread use of drop\u200d boxes \u2063illegal. The current court majority, including far-left Judge Janet Protasiewicz, has been influenced by leftist money, which significantly impacted the\u200b outcome of\u200c the\u2064 court&#8217;s decisions. This shift in power has prompted criticism from conservatives, who argue that the rule of law is being forsaken in favor of \u200ca\u200c political\u2064 agenda. Furthermore, the use of drop boxes in the 2020 election, funded\u200b by outside\u2063 grants, has raised concerns about election integrity and the manipulation of the voting\u2063 process.  <\/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\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>They say you get what you pay for. Swing state Wisconsin is getting the erosion of election integrity laws, thanks to a mountain of leftist money that changed the makeup of the state\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, just as President Joe Biden was slated to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/biden-political-crisis-holds-campaign-rally-wisconsin-ahead\/story?id=111677294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">campaign visit<\/a> to capital city and leftist enclave Madison, the left-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a previous court ruling and endorsed the widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes in November\u2019s election. The ruling opens the door to the same kind of election shenanigans that plagued the Badger State in 2020. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes. It merely acknowledges what [state statute] has always meant: that clerks may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-hands-democrats-a-swing-state-win-reverses-ballot-drop-box-order\/\" title=\"Wisconsin Supreme Court Hands Democrats a Swing State Win, Reverses Ballot Drop Box Order\">lawfully utilize secure drop boxes<\/a> in an exercise of their statutorily-conferred discretion,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&#038;seqNo=822752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">4-3 ruling<\/a> states. <\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not how the Wisconsin Supreme Court saw the matter in 2022 when the then-conservative majority <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/08\/wisconsins-illegal-ballot-dropbox-operation-further-proves-2020-was-not-most-secure-election-in-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a> that widespread use of unattended <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-gop-to-test-support-for-ballot-drop-boxes-buckhead-cityhood-in-may-primary\/\" title=\"Georgia GOP to Test Support for Ballot Drop Boxes, Buckhead Cityhood in May Primary\">absentee drop boxes<\/a> violated state law. The court ruled that way because the statutes in question do not allow for the widespread use of absentee drop boxes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe law\u2019s requirement that a ballot be returned in person to the municipal clerk does not mean leaving it somewhere for the clerk to pick up,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wispolitics.com\/2024\/wisconsin-institute-for-law-liberty-condemns-new-scowis-ruling-allowing-drop-boxes-for-2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law &#038; Liberty, the Milwaukee-based public interest law firm that filed the original lawsuit opposing the proliferation of the drop boxes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhether or not you support the use of drop boxes, we should want the law to be followed as it is written. Reconsidering \u2013 again \u2013 a case decided just two years ago will prove to be a grave and historic mistake,\u201d Esenberg added. <\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What an incredible coincidence that President Biden just happens to be visiting Madison the same day that the radical left wing majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court releases its decision allowing unmanned ballot drop boxes \u2013 which are permitted nowhere in state statute.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Julian Bradley (@SenBradley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenBradley\/status\/1809235104125817287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 5, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Forsakes the Rule of Law\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>The 2024 edition of the Wisconsin Supreme Court has reversed a lower court\u2019s ruling in a case known as <a href=\"https:\/\/will-law.org\/teigen-v-wisconsin-elections-commission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission<\/em>,<\/a> the ruling that the state high court two years earlier affirmed. That ruling found WEC\u2019s guidance encouraging the use of absentee ballot drop boxes to be unlawful.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cOnly the legislature may permit absentee voting via ballot drop boxes. WEC cannot. Ballot drop boxes appear nowhere in the detailed statutory system for absentee voting. WEC\u2019s authorization of ballot drop boxes was unlawful,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&#038;seqNo=542617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley, one of four conservatives on the seven-member Supreme Court in the 2022 ruling. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn absentee ballot must be returned by mail or the voter must personally deliver it to the municipal clerk at the clerk\u2019s office or a designated alternate site,\u201d the ruling, pointing to state law, made clear. \u201cThe record evidence [the Wisconsin Elections Commission] cited does not support its argument that ballot drop boxes have been in common and longstanding use in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mincing no words in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wicourts.gov\/sc\/opinion\/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&#038;seqNo=822752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dissent<\/a> to last week\u2019s ruling, Justice Bradley wrote that the majority \u201cforsakes the rule of law in an attempt to advance its political agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Money Changes Everything<\/h2>\n<p>Much has changed since 2022, most critically the majority. In April 2023, far-left Milwaukee County Judge Janet Protasiewicz was elected to the Wisconsin Supreme Court, giving liberals control of the state\u2019s court of last resort for the first time in 15 years. They\u2019re using their newfound power for maximum advantage. <\/p>\n<p>The race was far and away the most expensive in U.S. judicial history, surpassing $45 million. Protasiewicz\u2019s campaign raked in at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/entity-details?eid=2983981&#038;default=candidate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$14 million<\/a>, according to an OpenSecrets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/news\/2023\/04\/wisconsin-supreme-court-race-was-the-most-expensive-state-judicial-election-in-u-s-history\/#:~:text=1%20year%20old.-,Wisconsin%20Supreme%20Court%20race%20was%20the%20most,judicial%20election%20in%20U.S.%20history&#038;text=Liberals%20won%20control%20of%20the,high%2Dstakes%20race%20of%202023.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analysis<\/a> of campaign finance documents. The Wisconsin Democratic Party contributed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/entity-details?eid=2983981&#038;default=candidate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$8.9 million<\/a> of the total, with many of the donations coming from out-of-state donors. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/show-me?dt=1&#038;c-t-eid=2983981&#038;c-t-id=334433#%5B%7B1%7Cgro=d-cci\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">top industries<\/a> contributing to her campaign were lawyers and lobbyists, securities and investment, and education,\u201d OpenSecrets reported. <\/p>\n<p>By comparison, Protasiewicz\u2019s conservative opponent, former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly, raised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/entity-details?eid=2609919&#038;default=candidate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$2.6 million<\/a>, with \u201croughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.followthemoney.org\/entity-details?eid=2609919&#038;default=candidate\">$779,000<\/a> of that coming from the Wisconsin Republican Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Protasiewicz\u2019s election efforts also received a huge boost from big-spending leftist groups, including $6.2 million from the outside political action committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transparencyusa.org\/wi\/committee\/a-better-wisconsin-together-political-fund-1100112-ind_expn_committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A Better Wisconsin Together Political Fund<\/a>, according to OpenSecrets.  <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Will Not Go Unanswered\u2019 <\/h2>\n<p>The use of absentee ballot drop boxes exploded in 2020 after the Wisconsin Elections Commission gave its blessing. Their use was largely funded through <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/11\/10\/wisconsin-sends-amendments-banning-zuckbucks-noncitizen-voting-to-voters-for-approval\/\">\u201cZuckbucks,\u201d<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefga.org\/research\/the-wisconsin-zuckerbucks-problem\/\">$10 million-plus<\/a> in election administration grants handed out to Wisconsin clerks\u2019 offices in advance of the bitterly contested 2020 presidential election. The money was part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/end-zuckerbucks-gop-bill-aims-to-ban-mark-zuckerberg-style-election-funding\">hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a> in donations from Facebook founder and conservative speech silencer Mark Zuckerberg and his wife designated for local election administration changes across the country \u2014 under the cover of Covid. The brunt of the money went to swing states like Wisconsin and to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/05\/in-opposite-day-logic-usa-today-breathlessly-defends-zuckerbucks\/\">Democrat strongholds<\/a> such as Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Kenosha, and Racine. <\/p>\n<p>Unmanned absentee ballot boxes have sparked myriad election integrity concerns, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/06\/12\/connecticut-prosecutors-arrest-4-democrats-for-allegedly-misusing-absentee-ballots\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high-profile scandal<\/a> in a Connecticut election. <\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court\u2019s latest ruling comes a little more than a week before the start of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where the GOP is expected to officially nominate former President Donald Trump for a third time straight.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Republican Party Chairman Brian Schimming called the ruling a \u201csetback for both the separation of powers and public trust in our elections.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he left-wing justices on the Supreme Court of Wisconsin have obeyed the demands of their out-of-state donors at the expense of Wisconsin,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cThis latest attempt by leftist justices to placate their far-left backers will not go unanswered by voters.\u201d <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-knew-100-percent-he-was-fighting-for-the-little-guy-former-top-trump-economic-adviser\/\" title=\"Trump Knew \u2018100 Percent\u2019 He Was \u2018Fighting for the Little Guy\u2019: Former Top Trump Economic Adviser\">award-winning investigative reporter<\/a> and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They say that in Wisconsin, the erosion of election integrity laws is being influenced by leftist money that has changed the composition of the state&#8217;s Supreme Court. The court recently reversed a previous ruling and approved the widespread use of absentee ballot drop boxes, which opens the door to potential election fraud. This decision goes against a previous ruling that found the use of unattended drop boxes to be in violation of state law. The change in the court&#8217;s stance is believed to be influenced by the influx of money from liberal groups during the election of a new justice. 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