Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Ballot Drop Box, Absentee Ballot Arguments Today
Wisconsin should soon have an answer about ballot drop boxes and just who can return absentee ballots.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments this morning in the case Richard Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission .
It is a challenge to the Elections Commission’s guidance to local election managers that voters can drop off their ballots, or ballots from other voters at drop boxes.
“[State law] says there are only two ways to return an absentee ballot, you mail it or you deliver it in-person to the clerk. And a dropbox is neither of those, which is why they’re not allowed, ” Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty senior counsel Luke Berg told The Center Square. “But the other side says ‘Well, ya know it doesn’t say clearly that you can’t have a drop box.’”
WILL is arguing the case.
Wisconsin has been waiting for a final decision on drop boxes and absentee ballots for months.
A Waukesha County judge back in January ruled drop boxes are not allowed under