Tuesday, July 26, 2022

GET ME REWRITE Meet the 4 lapdogs on the Wisconsin Supreme Court who enforce GOP voter suppression policies


So are you sure you still want to vote Republican this fall?  If you can vote at all.

Headline Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 7/25/2022
The lawsuit is brought by Law Forward, a voting rights-focused legal firm, on behalf of Timothy Carey of Appleton who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy; Martha Chambers of Milwaukee, who is paralyzed from the neck down; Scott Luber of Mequon, who has muscular dystrophy; and Mike Reece of Sun Prairie, who has cerebral palsy. 
In a 4-3 ruling that came just four weeks before the Aug. 9 primary election, the state Supreme Court's conservative majority ruled state law does not permit unmanned absentee ballot drop boxes and that voters could not give absentee ballots to someone else to submit to a clerk's office. It did not bar others from dropping absentee ballots in the mailbox for voters. 
Chambers, a 60-year-old Milwaukee woman who has been paralyzed from the neck down for 27 years after a horse-riding accident, said the ruling and the continued focus on voting practices have her concerned her right to vote in future elections could be at risk. 

 

7/11/2022 update starts here

HeadlineWisconsin State Journal, 7/8/2022

Nothing worth quoting in this sloppily written report.

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