‘Raises Significant Concerns’: Wisconsin Elections Commission Sued Over Ballot Drop Boxes

‘Raises Significant Concerns’: Wisconsin Elections Commission Sued Over Ballot Drop Boxes
Residents drop mail-in ballots in a ballot box outside of the Tippecanoe branch library in Milwaukee, Wis., on Oct. 20, 2020. Scott Olson/Getty Images
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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A conservative nonprofit law firm filed a lawsuit that challenges Wisconsin’s law that allows ballot drop boxes, coming just days after the Wisconsin Supreme Court declined to hear a similar suit.

In a suit filed (pdf) Monday in a county circuit court on behalf of two voters in Waukesha County, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty argued that the court should make a declaratory judgment that the only legitimate means to vote in the state is via the U.S. mail or by handing the ballot in-person to a municipal clerk. The firm further argued that state law says that these are only the two options, not ballot drop boxes, and their usage during elections “raises significant concerns.”
Jack Phillips
Jack Phillips
Breaking News Reporter
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