WI: Circuit court judge hears arguments about making ban on 'ballot spoiling' permanent
A circuit court judge heard arguments Monday about whether to make Wisconsin's ban on "ballot spoiling" permanent.
The case of Nancy Kormanik vs. Wisconsin Elections Commission was resolved last October with a temporary ban on the practice, in which an absentee voter can request to have their ballot invalidated on or before election day in order to vote again or fix mistakes in their original vote.
The temporary order prohibited the elections commission from "advising, guiding, instructing, publishing, or otherwise communicating information related to spoiling absentee ballots and/or returning absentee ballots to electors" in ways not laid out by state law.
The conservative law group that filed the lawsuit has moved to make that ban permanent. In Waukesha County Circuit Court on Monday, the plaintiff's lawyer argued that ballot spoiling is only allowed under very specific circumstances, and that the state elections commission had illegally expanded the practice.
"Essentially, what this boils down to is the Commission's position that electors can 'revote' after already fully completing the absentee ballot voting process," said Kurt Goehre, an attorney representing Kormanik.
https://www.wpr.org/circuit-court-judge-hears-arguments-about-making-ban-ballot-spoiling-permanent
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