Wisconsin Supreme Court Leans Toward Democracy In Dropbox Case

Ballot drop boxes have been popular in Wisconsin for decades. And like every other state, there was a tremendous surge in their popularity in 2020 during the COVID pandemic. Then Trump came along with his Big Lie and tried to cast dispersion and doubt on drop boxes, saying they allowed tremendous amounts of fraud. In response, frauditors came out of the woodwork, looking for panda crap on the ballots and who knows what else. But they all came up empty, including the fraudit done by the misnamed right wing nut group Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brandley Foundation.

Despite finding nothing wrong, WILL still sued the state over drop boxes, arguing that they were illegal because there was no law explicitly allowing them, while ignoring that there was also no law forbidding them. WILL even went so far as to try to argue that there were no disabled voters in the state, so there was no need for drop boxes.

In 2022, the then conservative heavy state Supreme Court agreed with the nonsense and ruled that drop boxes were the scourge of the land and thus illegal.

As is happening so many times in the past year, after the state supreme court changed balance with the election of Justice Janet Protasiewicz, people petitioned the court to revisit this ruling and to restore justice. On Monday, the court heard the case. The court came prepared, the Republicans' attorney did not.

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