{"id":10720,"date":"2024-05-15T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T05:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10720"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:03:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T15:03:31","slug":"wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10720","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Supreme Court Might Overturn Ballot Drop Box Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban\/jtnews\/2024\/05\/15\/\">https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban\/jtnews\/2024\/05\/15\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Nicholas Ballasy<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The liberal-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court appears ready to overturn a ruling that banned the use of ballot drop boxes, which became a source of controversy during the 2020 election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin is considered a battleground state. The latest polls show a close race in the state between former President Trump and President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Drop boxes were widely used across many states in the 2020 election during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A ruling from July 2022 said drop boxes could only be located in election clerk offices. Since that ruling, the court changed to a 4-3 liberal majority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we just got it wrong?\u201d liberal Justice Jill Karofsky said of the July 2022 ruling, according to the Associated Press. \u201cWhat if we made a mistake? Are we now supposed to just perpetuate that mistake into the future?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicholas Ballasy has been breaking news for more than a decade in the nation\u2019s capital and questioning political leaders about the most pressing issues facing the nation.<br \/>\nPhoto \u201cBallot Drop Box\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Ballot_Drop_Box.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Cliffordsnow<\/a>. CC BY-SA 4.0.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from<a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/elections\/wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"> Just the News\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban\/jtnews\/2024\/05\/15\/\">Wisconsin Supreme Court Might Overturn Ballot Drop Box Ban<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\">The Wisconsin Daily Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-supreme-court-might-overturn-ballot-drop-box-ban\/jtnews\/2024\/05\/15\/ by Nicholas Ballasy \u00a0 The liberal-leaning Wisconsin Supreme Court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10721,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10720\/revisions\/10721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}