Wisconsin Supreme Court - "We love technicalities!"

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that drop boxes are unconstitutional because they aren't specifically mentioned in the law.

Wisconsin law says no person may “receive a ballot from or give a ballot to a person other than the election official in charge.” Those bringing the lawsuit argued that policy must be strictly followed, meaning it would be illegal for someone to drop their elderly parents’ ballots off for them or for church members to gather ballots after a service and then take them to a clerk’s office.

The majority agreed with that assessment.

Republicans have been most concerned about large-scale efforts to collect ballots by partisan actors. While some have engaged in that practice in other states, neither side deployed extensive operations for ballot collection in Wisconsin in 2020, when Joe Biden narrowly defeated President Donald Trump in the state.

The lower court ruled that ballots returned by mail could be placed into mailboxes only by voters themselves — a finding that alarmed advocates for the disabled because some voters physically cannot get to the polls or place their ballots in the mail.

The Supreme Court didn’t go as far, saying for now it would not address whether a voter can have someone else place a ballot in the mail.

Also not mentioned in the laws were "Base 10 numerals" and "transistors". The Republicans are working real hard to find controversy in hardly controversial applications of the law. They are scouring legislation for any bare technicality to wave about as if the Civil Rights of millions were at stake.

 

[ZiprHead]

Wisconsin Supreme Court prohibits use of most ballot drop boxes

The ruling deals a blow to Democrats ahead of crucial contests in a battleground state.

www.cnn.com

The court's majority ruled that the Wisconsin Election Commission -- a six-member panel that helps oversee voting in the state -- had overstepped its authority when it issued guidance to local election clerks to allow the use of drop boxes to return absentee ballots in the 2020 election, during the height of the pandemic. In its ruling, the court said absentee ballots can be dropped off by the voter at the clerk's office or another designated site -- but not at an unmanned ballot box.
The justices did not address whether someone can mail a ballot on behalf of another voter -- leaving open the possibility of some third-party ballot collection.

In the opinion, Bradley -- who was appointed to the high court in 2015 by then-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican -- drew comparisons to rigged contests found in totalitarian states, such as North Korea and Syria.
"The illegality of these drop boxes weakens the people's faith that the election produced an outcome reflective of their will," she wrote.
Critics of the 2020 election have not offered evidence that widespread fraud altered the results of the presidential race.

Always accusing others of what they are doing.