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Liberals are very sad about a Wisconsin judge who rejected an attempt backed by radicals to demand that absentee ballots without a proper and validated witness address be counted in election tallies as midterm elections are to happen in days, claiming that would disrupt the status quo and cause confusion with voting underway less than two weeks before Election Day.
“The ruling was a win for the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature, which intervened in the lawsuit. The case focused on how much of the address of a witness needs to be included on an absentee ballot certificate in order for the ballot to be counted,” the AP reported, adding:
The Wisconsin Elections Commission has said that an address must include three elements: a street number, street name, and municipality. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin sued, seeking a ruling that an address can only be missing when the entire field is left blank.
Dane County Circuit Judge Nia Trammell on Wednesday rejected the league’s request for a temporary injunction that would have allowed ballots with incomplete addresses to be counted. Trammell said she feared that loosening the witness address requirement would “would upend the status quo and not preserve it” and also “frustrate the electoral process by causing confusion.”
If she agreed with the league, the ruling would be quickly appealed and possibly overturned, which would result in ballots being tossed that were submitted by voters who thought their witness signatures were sufficient, Trammell said.
“This court does not want to add to the confusion that may arise from a temporary injunction that would all but certainly be appealed on an expedited basis,” she said.
The WI court of Appeals also upheld a lower court ruling on "ballot spoiling", so WI can NOT intentionally "spoil" ballots and people can NOT vote in person if they already mailed in their ballots.
The 2nd District Court of Appeals decided Thursday against hearing an appeal of a Waukesha County circuit court judge’s ruling this month in favor of a conservative group founded by prominent Republicans.
That ruling required the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission to rescind its guidance that allowed the spoiling of ballots that had already been cast. Voters who obtained an absentee ballot, but have not yet voted and want to obtain a new one, can still do that.
In the 2020 presidential election, nearly 33,000 voters spoiled their ballots and cast new ones, nearly 1% of all votes. In that election, President Joe Biden defeated former President Donald Trump by 20,682 votes.
originally posted by: Overseeall
a reply to: Xcathdra
Anything to invalidate as many votes as possible….sounds like a greasy technicality tactic. That being said, if you can’t put your address down fully, you probably are not voting with much thought.
originally posted by: Overseeall
a reply to: Xcathdra
Anything to invalidate as many votes as possible….sounds like a greasy technicality tactic. That being said, if you can’t put your address down fully, you probably are not voting with much thought.