{"id":11193,"date":"2024-06-13T05:03:29","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11193"},"modified":"2024-06-13T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:19:15","slug":"unanimous-wisconsin-supreme-court-rejects-racine-mobile-voting-van-and-keep-polling-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=11193","title":{"rendered":"Unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court Rejects Racine Mobile Voting Van and Keep Polling Places"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/unanimous-wisconsin-supreme-court-rejects-racine-mobile-voting-van-and-keep-polling-places\/tcsquare\/2024\/06\/13\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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by Benjamin Yount<\/h5>\n

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Conservatives on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say the order that bans Racine County\u2019s mobile voting van but keeps the city\u2019s Democrat-heavy other polling locations is nonsensical.<\/p>\n

The liberal-majority court unanimously ruled that Racine, and other cities in Wisconsin, cannot use vans to collect ballots.<\/p>\n

A Racine County judge said the same thing in January. The judge also ruled Racine County chose the stops for its mobile voting van in areas of the city that favored democrats.<\/p>\n

The liberal-majority court disagreed and issued a stay on that idea.<\/p>\n

The majority wrote in their opinion that they don\u2019t want the Racine judge\u2019s ruling to \u201cdramatically curtail the number of locations municipalities may designate as alternate absentee ballot sites.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe conclude that public interest weighs heavily in favor of staying the circuit court\u2019s ruling regarding designating alternate absentee ballot sites,\u201d the majority added. \u201cAt this stage, just months before the August primary and November general elections, there is a risk that the circuit court\u2019s ruling will disrupt ongoing preparations for those elections by creating uncertainty about which sites may be designated as alternate absentee balloting locations. Granting a stay will, as mentioned previously, simply ensure the status quo since 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley said the majority\u2019s reasoning is \u201cnonsensical.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA first-year law student understands that courts stay orders, not reasoning,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn its ongoing effort to resolve cases in a manner benefitting its preferred political party, the majority enters a bewildering order heretofore unheard of in the legal realm. While the majority (correctly) denies the motion to stay the circuit court\u2019s order, the majority \u2018stays\u2019 a portion of the circuit court\u2019s legal analysis. This is not a \u2018thing\u2019 under the law,\u201d Bradley added. \u201cThe majority doesn\u2019t explain, but it obviously wants everyone to know it does not like the circuit court\u2019s analysis, even if it cannot find fault with the circuit court\u2019s actual order. The majority wreaks havoc with the law governing motions to stay, and egregiously misrepresents the circuit court\u2019s decision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Benjamin Yount\u00a0is a contributor for The Center Square<\/a>.
\nPhoto \u201cVoting Station\u201d by Phil Roeder from Des Moines, IA, USA<\/a> CC BY 2.0.<\/em><\/p>\n

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