In Wisconsin, the situation is different. Republicans who control the Legislature are seeking to limit ballot drop boxes, restrict who can return absentee ballots for others and tighten rules for when elderly and disabled voters can automatically receive absentee ballots.
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.
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.
âThroughout the day I saw steady streams of voters using drop boxes on Election Day and spoke with clerks and election workers still dissatisfied with the insufficient time provided under current law to preprocess absentee ballots,â Benson stated. âYet today the bills before you would ban the use of drop boxes on Election Day and continue to restrict preprocessing for our clerks.â
Of the legislation being discussed in committee today, Bensonâs testimony noted the impact of a handful.
She noted that Senate Bill 286 would ban the use of drop boxes on Election Day, the day they are most used and needed. Similarly, she said Senate Bill 273Â would enable county canvassers â who are selected by the political parties they represent â to entirely prohibit the use of drop boxes in their counties.
Voting rights group: Problems in Brindisi-Tenney House race worse than reported
Updated May 03, 2021;
Posted May 03, 2021
Claudia Tenney debates Anthony Brindisi at a virtual editorial board meeting of syracuse.com/The Post-Standard, Friday Oct. 9, 2020. Tenney, a Republican from New Hartford, won the House race by 109 votes.
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The number of voters who had their ballots disqualified last year in New York’s 22nd Congressional District election is higher than previously disclosed in court, according to data compiled by a voting rights group.
Election officials tossed out the ballots of at least 273 registered voters in the House race between Rep. Claudia Tenney and Anthony Brindisi, simply because those voters showed up at the wrong polling place, the new data shows.
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