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Wisconsin election officials agree to send most voters in the state absentee ballot applications in the Fall.
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The odds are high, but this is a glimmer of normalcy.
I will say, PA was very aggressive in sending me mail, emails and phone calls/texts from just about every single primary campaign about registering for your mail-in ballot. Dropped my primary ballot in the mail box today. My county was expecting 10-15k new mail in ballot applications... they got 70k
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no, the last issue was the Governor acted on his own. This is the state board of elections exercising their power given to them by the legislation.
Well the true underlying issue was that the legislature and courts are dumb and the governor tried to do the only sane thing available given the circumstances.
But I see they learned after getting beatdown in the most recent election.
To be absolutely fair, Palm was exercising her power given by the legislation with the safer at home orders and the court found a way to wiggle out of that one even while one of the most conservative of them called out the others for just that very thing.
PA is that progressive? Why do I feel like they wouldn't do this?
No. The WEC is bipartisan and has the clear authority to do this. There may be a legal challenge but it won't be taken seriously. Also the fact that these are just applications, not ballots themselves, will provide enough of a barrier for some voters to partially satisfy the GOP
They're doing this because Milwaukee did it and Republicans are scared the city might out vote their rural white powerbases aren't they?
Commission is bipartisan. Seems odd to be challenged.
They passed a few election laws the last few years that brought about changes. Tells you how sad it is that something as simple as mail in voting is considered progressive now. Trump is a cancer
The reason why is that before this decision, some very liberal parts of the state elected to go ahead and send applications to their voters. Would've made for a very lopsided sending of applications and thus Republicans hands were forced, as it were.
Like with the state shutdowns, liberals should force move ahead with their plans and force the hand of the right. Of course the reopening started with Republican governors (and economy/lack of federal aid) forcing the hand of Democrat governors.
