Wisconsin Elections Commission steps in to challenge Madison’s argument on absentee voting
A rare court filing adds to the growing condemnation of the city’s defense against a lawsuit seeking monetary damages for votes that weren’t counted in 2024.
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Wisconsin Elections Commission steps in to challenge Madison’s argument on absentee voting
A rare court filing adds to the growing condemnation of the city’s defense against a lawsuit seeking monetary damages for votes that weren’t counted in 2024.
Liberals criticize Madison officials’ stance on absentee voting
"Voting is a constitutional right. Once a state permits absentee voting, every voter who lawfully casts an absentee ballot has the right to have their ballot counted. Full stop," the groups wrote.
Congressman Bryan Steil’s MEGA Act has a laundry list of goals. It would require photo ID to vote, require states to verify citizenship during voter registration, require strong voter list maintenance, require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on Election Day (with exceptions for military members overseas), and require states to use auditable paper ballots. It would also ban ballot harvesting, ban ranked choice voting and ban universal vote by mail.
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Some of those factors have pushed high court races in other states into the seven- or even eight-figure range, but only Wisconsin — the first to see nine-figure spending on a court contest — has all of them.
“It’s the whole picture that makes us so obscene,” says Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin, which advocates for transparent and accountable government.
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“It’s only going to create more opportunities for voting,” said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause Wisconsin. “That for us is always the key. It should be funded for more than one year.”
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As the nation gears up for the high-stakes midterm election next year, Republicans in the state Assembly are advancing a handful of bills that seek to change Wisconsin’s election system.
