As the GOP makes final preparations for its big Republican party next week in Milwaukee, conservatives in critical swing state Wisconsin are considering their legal options in the wake of a direct assault on election integrity.
Boxed In
On Friday, the left-led Wisconsin Supreme Court reversed a previous court ruling and endorsed the widespread use of unattended absentee ballot drop boxes in November’s election. The ruling opens the door to the same kind of election shenanigans that plagued the Badger State in 2020.
“Our decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes. It merely acknowledges what [state statute] has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of their statutorily-conferred discretion,” the 4-3 ruling states.
But state statute, as conservative Justice Rebecca Grassl Bradley argues in her stinging dissent, does no such thing. Bradley was in the conservative majority just two years ago when the court ruled that the widespread use of unattended absentee drop boxes violated state law. At the time, Bradley wrote for the majority that the statute clearly states that an “absentee ballot must be returned by mail or the voter must personally deliver it to the municipal clerk at the clerk’s office or a designated alternate site.”
In her dissent to last week’s ruling, the justice wrote that the new bought-and-paid-for leftist majority “forsakes the rule of law in an attempt to advance its political agenda.”
‘Appeal Route’
Republican Party of Wisconsin (RPW) Chairman Brian
