{"id":9598,"date":"2024-03-20T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T10:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9598"},"modified":"2024-03-20T11:00:51","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T11:00:51","slug":"new-ballot-drop-box-case-in-the-wi-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9598","title":{"rendered":"New Ballot Drop Box Case in the WI Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/new-ballot-drop-box-case-in-the-wi-supreme-court\/\">https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/new-ballot-drop-box-case-in-the-wi-supreme-court\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court accepted a case designed to overturn the state\u2019s current ban on ballot drop boxes. In 2022, the then-conservative high court ruled state law does not allow for ballot drop boxes any place except the election clerk\u2019s office. This new case, which the court will hear in May, argues that ballot drop boxes at other places are, quote, \u201ccritical for voters.\u201d Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley says the now liberal court is looking to, quote, \u201cincrease the electoral prospects of its preferred political party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This case is timed to cause chaos and confusion as we head into a major election this fall. Unattended ballot drop boxes away from clerks\u2019 offices are fraught with problems. Just as significant is how our state supreme court is being used to play political games. Elections aren\u2019t games; they are foundational to our constitutional republic.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/\">WIFamilyCouncil.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wifamilycouncil.org\/radio\/new-ballot-drop-box-case-in-the-wi-supreme-court\/ Last week the Wisconsin Supreme Court accepted a case&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wfc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9599,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9598\/revisions\/9599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}