Wisconsin Voters With Print Disability Can Receive Electronic Ballots, Judge Says

All voters in the state must still return ballots by mail or in person.

Voters cast their ballots in Milwaukee, in a file photograph. Darren Hauck/Getty Images

A Wisconsin judge ruled on June 25 that some voters in the state can receive electronic ballots, finding in favor of residents who say a disability prevents them from reading or marking a paper ballot independently.

“Provisions prohibiting municipal clerks from distributing absentee ballots by email ... are unenforceable as applied to absent electors, as defined by Wis. Stat. [Section] 6.20, who self-certify to having a print disability,” Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell said in a two-page order.