In 2021, the city of Racine, Wisconsin purchased a “Mobile Election Unit,” tapping into more than $200,000 of the nearly $1.7 million the Democrat enclave received in “Zuckbucks” — election administration grants funded by private billionaire Mark Zuckerberg. The southeastern Wisconsin city of nearly 80,000 residents located on the shores of Lake Michigan used this “voting booth on wheels” to reach as many voters as possible, local elections officials claimed.
But as one election integrity watchdog put it, Racine’s mobile voting van — the only one of its kind in the Badger State — isn’t about access; it’s all about turnout: specifically, turning out Democrat voters.
Last week, a Racine County Circuit Court judge agreed with that assessment.
In his ruling, Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz declared that nothing in state law allowed for the use of the voting van, and further found that its use at multiple, particular sites around the city gave Democrats a partisan advantage.
“No defendant or intervenor can point to any statute authorizing the use of mobile (van) absentee ballot sites; instead, the defendants argue no statute expressly prohibits them,” the judge concluded in his ruling. “The absence of an express prohibition, however, does not mean mobile absentee ballot sites comport to procedures specified in the election laws.”
Who’s Driving This Thing?
The intervenors in the Wisconsin case include partisans such as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Black Leaders Organizing for Communities (BLOC). The latter promotes far-left policies in the Milwaukee area as a project of
