Wisconsin GOP may block clerks from fixing ballot addresses

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Marc E. Elias
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If you want to focus on fighting against election subversion in 2022 and 2024, I suggest you pay more attention to this and less to the musing of Susan Collins.

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Wisconsin GOP may block clerks from fixing ballot addresses
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans were set Wednesday to erase regulations allowing local election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes , the latest move in the...
11:39 AM · Jul 20, 2022

https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-voting-donald-trump-wisconsin-8a4b12d9915e00610eb39aeaefe1fee5

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans were set Wednesday to erase regulations allowing local election clerks to fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes, the latest move in the GOP’s push to tighten voting procedures in the crucial swing state.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission in October 2016 issued guidance to local clerks saying they could fill in missing witness information on absentee envelopes without contacting the witness or the voter. The guidance was in effect during the 2020 presidential election, which saw Joe Biden narrowly defeat then-President Donald Trump in Wisconsin.

Trump has spread the false claim since then that Biden stole the election, in the face of multiple reviews and court decisions that found no evidence of fraud on a scale that would have affected the outcome.

Republican lawmakers passed a sweeping package of bills earlier this year to require the rules committee to sign off on any commission guidance, to make it harder for people to declare themselves indefinitely confined in order to get an absentee ballot and to ban private groups from giving local governments money to help administer elections.

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I follow Marc and I'm starting to really sense frustration from him. He doesn't like what Collins is doing and I think he's pretty sure people aren't paying attention to the right things and we're going to be blindsided come midterms.