{"id":10095,"date":"2024-04-03T17:10:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T17:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10095"},"modified":"2024-04-12T06:40:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T06:40:11","slug":"gov-evers-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-to-ok-ballot-drop-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10095","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Evers Asks Wisconsin Supreme Court to OK Ballot Drop Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-to-ok-ballot-drop-boxes\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-to-ok-ballot-drop-boxes\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/evers-maps-commission.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Evers Drew Congressional Maps Eric Wimberger Republican\u2019s Second Tax Cut evers vetoes evers budget\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Justice Anne Walsh Bradley\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s governor is asking the state Supreme Court to allow ballot drop boxes ahead of this November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Tony Evers filed a brief with the court, asking the new liberal-majority to overturn a ruling from 2022 that said ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the very heart of our democracy is the fundamental freedom to vote. In Wisconsin, we must work to protect that freedom and to empower our clerks and election administrators working hard at the local level to make decisions that are right for their communities. Drop box voting is safe and secure, and there is nothing in Wisconsin\u2019s election laws that prohibit our local clerks from using this secure option, absent an incorrect ruling by our courts,\u201d Evers said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin law does not specifically allow for ballot drop boxes anywhere other than the local clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The then-conservative-majority court based its ruling that banned ballot drop boxes on that fact.<\/p>\n<p>But Evers says ballot drop boxes somewhere else in the community are no different than a drop box at the clerk\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll across our country, election officials have chosen to use drop boxes to ensure that all eligible voters can freely cast their ballots. And they\u2019ve done so while keeping ballots safe and secure,\u201d Evers added.<\/p>\n<p>The governor\u2019s brief argues the 2022 ruling against ballot drop boxes \u201ccauses confusion\u201d among local clerks.<\/p>\n<p>Ballot drop boxes became an issue in the 2020 election when they popped up across the state. The Wisconsin Elections Commission says 40% of ballots cast in that election were cast through a drop box.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have said the ballot drop boxes are not secure, and there\u2019s no way to know who is dropping off which ballots.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments about ballot drop boxes in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/evers-asks-wisconsin-supreme-court-to-ok-ballot-drop-boxes\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s governor is asking the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10097,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10095\/revisions\/10097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}