Elections
Wisconsin Supreme Court rules absentee voter drop boxes are illegal
Wisconsin’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that absentee voter drop boxes are illegal under the state’s constitution. The court upheld Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren’s ruling from January. According to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, there were 500 ballot drop boxes that were widely used in Wisconsin during the 2020 election.
The lawsuit was brought by two Wisconsin voters who asked the judge to block the use of drop boxes. Bohren ruled absentee ballots can be returned via mail or in person, but under state law, drop boxes are not allowed.
Axios reports “Absentee voting and drop boxes surged in popularity during the pandemic, with more than 40%of all voters casting mail ballots during the 2020 election.”
The ruling “is a blow to Democrats in the battleground state before the 2022 and 2024 elections. Biden narrowly beat Trump in Wisconsin by just under 21,000 votes in 2020” adds Axios.
The state Supreme Court ruled that Wisconsin voters will be required to mail or return completed absentee ballots in person to designated officials or to drop boxes in elected officials’ offices.
“Wisconsin’s election statutes require that to return an absentee ballot in person, voters must personally deliver their ballot to the clerk or the clerk’s authorized representative,” the conservative majority court wrote in the Friday opinion.
The court did not address the question of whether anyone other than the voter can return their own ballot by mail, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Videotapes containing witness interviews conducted by the Democrat-led January 6 congressional committee have disappeared. The chairman of the House Administration oversight subcommittee, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.), expressed his apprehension on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show.
According to Loudermilk, all videotapes of depositions have vanished, raising questions about the preservation of crucial evidence. He argued that, under House rules, these tapes qualified as congressional evidence, especially since some clips were aired during hearings. Loudermilk contended that the tapes should have been preserved by the now-defunct Jan. 6 committee and its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.).
Loudermilk’s revelation has broader implications, potentially impacting criminal trials in both state court in Georgia and federal court in Washington, where individuals, including former President Donald Trump, face charges related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Notably, Trump’s legal team had recently requested evidence from the Jan. 6 committee but was denied by a judge.
The situation takes a further twist as Loudermilk disclosed that the J6 committee had sent certain evidence, such as transcripts, to the Biden White House and the Homeland Security Department. Shockingly, these transcripts have now been returned to Loudermilk’s GOP-led subcommittee almost entirely redacted, preventing the disclosure of their contents.
The lack of records regarding witnesses, their statements, and the extensive redactions have raised concerns among House Republicans. Loudermilk emphasized that these documents belong to the House and should not have been sent in such a heavily redacted form. The chairman questioned the motives behind the redactions, asking why a Democrat-run House was allowed to have unredacted documents while a Republican committee’s efforts were obstructed. This development adds another layer of complexity to the ongoing investigations into the events surrounding January 6, 2021.
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