Majority of members of Brookfield (Wisconsin) Common Council vote in favor of voter suppression

 

In Brookfield, 80% of residents are white and 50.3% are female.

Photo crdits:  City of Brookfield Wisconsin

Headline:  WTMJ, 8/21/2024

All who spoke at the meeting in public comment on Tuesday night talked in favor of having the drop box option. 

“What I’m asking you to do is realize that people with disabilities and older adults don’t have the ability to have the control to get to the city hall to drop off their absentee ballot during office hours all the time,” said Julie Burish.

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Votebeat Wisconsin, 10/3/2024

One of them is Brookfield, the western suburb of Milwaukee. Residents there requested access to drop boxes, saying it would eliminate a barrier for voters with disabilities and older adults who can’t always go to the city hall to drop off their absentee ballot, TMJ4 reported. But officials voted to opt out after the city clerk and city attorney said drop boxes would require extra work to set up and monitor and that they were unnecessary in a post-pandemic election.