Georgia-style voting restrictions won't happen in Wisconsin. Here's why
Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
MADISON - The tighter voting rules sweeping some states won’t happen in Wisconsin.
But Democratic Gov. Tony Evers plans to veto those measures if they get to him.
That means the state’s voting laws are all but certain to remain unchanged for 2022, when Evers is up for re-election.
Wisconsin politicians have been fighting over voting rules for decades, but their disputes escalated last year when the coronavirus pandemic transformed voting habits.
Wisconsinites turned to absentee voting in unprecedented numbers and large groups of voters designated themselves as indefinitely confined because of age or disability, allowing them to automatically receive absentee ballots.