{"id":13085,"date":"2024-10-02T17:03:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13085"},"modified":"2024-10-02T20:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T20:16:57","slug":"wisconsin-city-ballot-drop-box-now-in-use-after-mayor-removed-prior-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13085","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin City Ballot Drop Box Now in Use After Mayor Removed Prior Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-city-ballot-drop-box-now-in-use-after-mayor-removed-prior-box\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/02\/\">https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-city-ballot-drop-box-now-in-use-after-mayor-removed-prior-box\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/02\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by Jon Styf<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wausau\u2019s ballot drop box has returned.<\/p>\n<p>City Clerk Kaitlyn Bernarde announced an official drop box was secured outside of Wausau City Hall after a box was previously removed from the spot before it was in use by Mayor Doug Diny (pictured above).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_221c64f4-7b79-11ef-8f56-5b026b51f6e2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Bernarde previously said<\/a>\u00a0she reported Diny\u2019s drop box removal to the Marathon County District Attorney and Wisconsin Elections Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The drop box can be used to submit absentee ballots, payments and other city requests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe drop box has been re-labeled for use and is secured to the ground, in accordance with guidelines from the Wisconsin Elections Commission and the United States Election Assistance Commission,\u201d Bernarde\u2019s statement said. \u201cThe previously utilized silver payment box in front of City Hall has been removed and will no longer be in service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ballot drop boxes remain a highly debated issue in the state after the Wisconsin Supreme Court\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_bfb4d14c-3add-11ef-ac1f-eb65d679c2f0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external noreferrer\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">first blocked the use<\/a>\u00a0of ballot drop boxes and then earlier this year allowed drop box use without requiring it.<\/p>\n<p>The difficulty after the recent ruling is for communities to maintain a ballot chain of custody and ensure that only the voter is dropping their own ballot in the drop box.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_29cb39d8-800f-11ef-9734-57205a022d7d.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Center Square<\/a> who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies.<br \/>\nPhoto \u201cDoug Diny\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=648932270725442&amp;set=a.213206004298073\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Doug Diny<\/a>.Background Photo \u201cWasau City Hall\u201d by <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:WausauWisconsinCityHall.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Royalbroil<\/a>. CC BY-SA 2.5.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-city-ballot-drop-box-now-in-use-after-mayor-removed-prior-box\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/02\/\">Wisconsin City Ballot Drop Box Now in Use After Mayor Removed Prior Box<\/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-city-ballot-drop-box-now-in-use-after-mayor-removed-prior-box\/tcsquare\/2024\/10\/02\/ by Jon Styf \u00a0 Wausau\u2019s ballot drop box has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13085","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\/13085","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=13085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13086,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13085\/revisions\/13086"}],"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=13085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}