Wisconsin GOP and the voter suppression legacy of toxic Scott Walker

 

Headline:    Wisconsin State Journal, 3/12/2025

Mitchell Schmidt reports:

Wisconsin had previously allowed disabled voters to request ballots be faxed or emailed to them until Republican former Gov. Scott Walker in 2011 signed into law a bill restricting such offerings to only military and overseas voters.  [emphasis added]

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