{"id":10544,"date":"2024-05-05T01:57:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T01:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10544"},"modified":"2024-05-05T02:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T02:07:23","slug":"wisconsin-democrats-continue-to-push-ballot-drop-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10544","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Democrats Continue to Push Ballot Drop Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-democrat-leadership-continues-drop-box-push\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-democrat-leadership-continues-drop-box-push\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" 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\" title=\"Ballot Drop Boxes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s Democrat leadership continued its push for drop boxes as Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a response brief with the Wisconsin Supreme Court to allow them.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_8977234c-f1ad-11ee-9c1a-b76dba78f2f7.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">filed a brief<\/a> in early April looking overturn a ruling from 2022 that said ballot drop boxes are not allowed under state law.<\/p>\n<p>Kaul wrote that, by spring 2021, 570 drop boxes were placed across 66 of Wisconsin\u2019s 72 counties and the share of Wisconsin voters casting an absentee ballot increased from 6% to 30% from 2002 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Kaul argued Wisconsin law does not prohibit drop boxes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVoting should be safe, secure and accessible \u2014 and drop boxes are,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.doj.state.wi.us\/sites\/default\/files\/news-media\/4.25.24_Respondents_Brief_FINAL.PDF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaul said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cUnfortunately, the use of drop boxes has been swept into the broader and baseless attacks on our elections and our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThrough our filing, we\u2019re arguing that Wisconsin law does not prohibit the use of drop boxes, and that clerks should be able to determine whether to offer this convenient method of voting in their communities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-democrat-leadership-continues-drop-box-push\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s Democrat leadership continued its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10544","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\/10544","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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10546,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10544\/revisions\/10546"}],"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=10544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}