The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear an appeal of a circuit court’s January 13 decision “that held that [Wisconsin Election Commission’s] guidance on absentee ballot drop boxes [deployed statewide in the 2020 election] violates state law, and/or should have been adopted through the rulemaking process.”
The Wisconsin Institute of Law and Liberty (WILL) filed the case, Teigen v Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC), in Waukesha County Circuit Court on behalf of two Waukesha County voters in June 2021.
The lawsuit challeng[ed] the legal status of absentee ballot drop boxes after WEC issued unlawful guidance to clerks, in 2020, encouraging the use of absentee ballot drop boxes, and telling voters that others can return their ballot for them.”
“This advice was contrary to state law,” WILL argued on behalf of the plaintiffs:
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