The expanded use of drop boxes for mailed ballots during the 2020 election did not lead to any widespread problems, according to an Associated Press survey of state election officials across the U.S. that revealed no cases of fraud, vandalism or theft that could have affected the results.
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Administrator: Voters must mail their own absentee ballots
Wisconsin voters must place their own absentee ballots in the mail and can't have someone do it for them, the state's chief election administrator said Thursday.
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court disallows absentee ballot drop boxes
Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled on Friday that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person, dealing a defeat to Democrats who said the decision would make it harder to vote in the battleground state.
Read More »Bill setting up early absentee ballot count likely dead
A Republican-authored bill that would authorize local election clerks to begin counting absentee ballots a day earlier is likely dead.
Read More »Wisconsin Elections Commission retracts ballot box guidance
The Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to retract its guidance that allowed for multiple absentee ballot boxes and for people other than the voter to return absentee ballots, in compliance with a state Supreme Court order.
Read More »Wisconsin election officials deadlock on drop-box rules
Wisconsin elections officials failed to reach a consensus Friday on how to handle Republican lawmakers' demands that they either withdraw guidance on absentee ballot drop boxes or quickly publish formal rules, opening the door to yet another legal battle.
Read More »Wisconsin Supreme Court asked to rule on ballot boxes
A conservative group Wednesday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take over a legal challenge to absentee ballot boxes in Wisconsin and immediately lift a lower court's ruling that kept current law in place.
Read More »No voters targeted for purge voted in Wisconsin in 2020
The number of voters identified as possibly having moved in Wisconsin decreased by two-thirds before the November presidential election, and none of the people still on the list cast ballots in 2020, the state Elections Commission reported Wednesday.
Read More »More than 75,000 people voted in-person in Wisconsin
More than 75,000 people cast their ballots in-person on Tuesday, the first day that was available in battleground Wisconsin, the state elections commission reported.
Read More »Wisconsin county says ballot misprint will delay count
Officials in a northeastern Wisconsin county said Monday that a technical ballot misprint will most likely delay the counting of some absentee ballots on Election Day, but they reassured the public that all ballots will be counted.
Read More »Wisconsin absentee case may be headed to US Supreme Court
Democrats and their allies said Tuesday they will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether absentee ballots in battleground Wisconsin that are received as many as six days after the election can be counted — a step being fought by Republicans who have opposed other attempts across the country to make voting easier.
Read More »Court blocks extension of Wisconsin absentee ballot deadline
A federal appeals court blocked a decision on Thursday to extend the deadline for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin, in a win for Republicans who have fought attempts to make voting easier throughout the country.
Read More »GOP asks full appeals court to hear Wisconsin absentee case
Wisconsin Republicans want the full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear their appeal of a ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that allowed absentee ballots to be counted for six days after Election Day.
Read More »Despite fears, Wisconsin elections leader says state ready
The chief elections official in the presidential battleground of Wisconsin said Tuesday that the state is prepared for the November election, despite fears over security, the coronavirus pandemic and the U.S. Postal Service's ability to process an expected record-high number of mailed-in absentee ballots.
Read More »Milwaukee adding drop boxes to help protect absentee voting
Milwaukee plans to install more than a dozen secure drop boxes to make it easier for voters to drop off their absentee ballots before Election Day to combat a "full-scale attack on voting by mail," Mayor Tom Barrett told Wisconsin Democrats on Tuesday.
Read More »Wisconsin election head: ‘Don’t wait’ on mailing ballots
In the face of warnings about slow mail delivery and record-high requests for absentee ballots, the head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday urged voters not to wait to return their ballot for the Aug. 11 statewide primary.
Read More »Wealthy donors pour millions into fight over mail-in voting
Deep-pocketed and often anonymous donors are pouring over $100 million into an intensifying dispute about whether it should be easier to vote by mail, a fight that could determine President Donald Trump's fate in the November election.
Read More »Wisconsin panel gives final approval on absentee ballots
The Wisconsin Elections Commission gave final approval to a mailing that will put application forms for absentee ballots in the hands of 2.7 million registered voters ahead of the November presidential election.
Read More »Wisconsin weighs mailing all voters absentee application
Wisconsin election officials were moving Wednesday to vote on a plan to mail absentee ballot applications to voters who haven't requested one, a step that could incur President Donald Trump's wrath after he had threatened to pull funding from states that have adopted similar measures.
Read More »Seniors file legal challenge to absentee voting rules
A group of Minnesota seniors is joining their counterparts in at least four other states by legally challenging their state's absentee voting rules amid the coronavirus outbreak.
Read More »In Wisconsin, missing absentees spur questions and anger
The U.S. Postal Service and election officials searched for answers Thursday about why an untold number of absentee ballots never made it to voters in Wisconsin who didn't want to risk contracting the coronavirus by voting at the polls in the state's presidential primary.
Read More »Wisconsin absentee voters to receive 2 spring ballots
Election officials in Wisconsin plan to send absentee voters two ballots for the spring election, setting up the possibility of voter confusion.
Read More »Absentee voting begins for Wisconsin Aug. 14 primary
Absentee voting for Wisconsin's Aug. 14 primary has begun, but the process for casting a ballot early varies across the state.
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