Fri Jan 14, 2022 – 5:42 pm EST
WAUKESHA COUNTY, Wisconsin (LifeSiteNews) – The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) violated state law when it blessed the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in the 2020 elections, highlighting one of the many issues that plagued the presidential race and potentially impacting how future elections will turn out in the Dairy State.
Last summer, the conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a lawsuit against WEC over the issue, arguing that Wisconsin law only allows absentee ballots to be “mailed by the elector, or delivered in person, to the municipal clerk issuing the ballot or ballots.” Yet WEC issued memos to local election administrators advising them that unstaffed and unsupervised drop boxes could be used to collect absentee ballots instead.
NPR reported that on Thursday, Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren concluded that “in looking at the statutes, there is no specific authorization for drop boxes,” and that WEC’s guidance constituted “a major policy decision that alter[s] how our absentee ballot process operates,” and therefore could not have been validly instituted without legislative approval.
Bohren ordered WEC to rescind the guidance by January 27, effectively ending the use
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