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Wisconsin Court Shoots Down Attempt to
Change Rules for Absentee Ballots Before Midterms

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Posted By: earlybird, 11/3/2022 1:01:38 PM

A Wisconsin judge on Wednesday dealt a blow to a group in the state who hoped to change rules governing absentee ballots, denying their request that local election clerks accept absentee ballots that contain partial addresses of witnesses. Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas said in his ruling (pdf) that in the past 56 years that Wisconsin elections have been conducted, and absentee ballots counted, they have apparently been done so “without a legally binding definition of the witness address.” The judge noted that the nearly 60 years of precedent was enough to determine whether an absentee ballot has enough of a witness address to count.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Heil Liberals 11/3/2022 1:21:54 PM (No. 1323204)
Here is the simple test for the validity of any ballot: Did they follow directions? Did they complete the required information? Did they turn it in to the right place? Did it arrive in time to be counted? If it doesn’t pass these tests, then it goes in the trash.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: formerNYer 11/3/2022 2:10:07 PM (No. 1323237)
D'Rats gotta cheat!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Quigley 11/3/2022 2:26:09 PM (No. 1323248)
There must be some security in place to prevent (1) harvesting of ballots from real voters whether by buying them, taking advantage of the voter, or forging them, (2) forging ballots of nonexistent voters or of once eligible voters who are no longer eligible (eg, from dying or moving away).
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Reply 4 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 11/3/2022 2:32:52 PM (No. 1323250)
This in UBER liberal Dane County/?
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Reply 5 - Posted by: DVC 11/3/2022 3:18:07 PM (No. 1323280)
Dems ALWAYS looking for ways to cheat.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: john56 11/3/2022 3:18:55 PM (No. 1323282)
Sadly, in the days of my youth and the first times I voted (in the 70s), Wisconsin was known as a paragon of virtue when it came to voting. We didn't have to disclose which primary we were voting in (both the Republican and Democrat parties were on the same ballot, you had to make the selection of your party in the privacy of the voting booth) and we had same day registration. But everyone knew you played by the rules. Cheating for elections was a Chicago thing, and we in Wisconsin didn't like Chicago things. Yeah, we knew that Milwaukee and Madison would vote strongly Democrat. The Fox Valley and Milwaukee suburbs voted heavy Republican and the rest of the state basically determined who would win. Democrats were strong in union towns, emphasis on were ... -- my home county, Manitowoc, was a Dem stronghold. Heck, I took a look at next week's ballot for county offices and they have an unopposed Republican running for Sheriff. I think when I moved out of the county, the Republican voter count dropped by 20%. But no, the Dems had to bring in the Chicago element and its' now as corrupt as Illinois, but at least Wisconsin has enough Republicans to counteract the Milwaukee-Madison axis of evil.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: skacmar 11/3/2022 5:04:25 PM (No. 1323366)
How hard is it to put your address on an envelope? If you only put "221 Pine Street" it means nothing as almost every town has a Pine Street. If you just put the city, I have no clue where you live. The law is the law! If a voter is "disenfranchised " because of this, it is the voter who disenfranchised themselves by failing to follow directions.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Anthomaniac 11/3/2022 7:42:31 PM (No. 1323498)
The Wisconsin Supreme Court (majority Progressive) will likely overturn this and require anything resembling a ballot to be counted, never mind what the state law and constitution says.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: GustoGrabber 11/3/2022 8:09:45 PM (No. 1323508)
wisconsin state supreme court is 4-3 or 5-2 good guys depending on Hagdedorn votes.
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