A Wisconsin judge rejected an attempt by a left-wing group to allow the counting of invalid absentee ballots on Friday, with the ruling coming ahead of the state’s upcoming fall elections.
Last month, in a case called White v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, plaintiffs supported by the group known as Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections (RITE) successfully barred local election officials from filling in “missing address information from ballot certifications that must accompany mail-in ballots,” according to a RITE press release obtained by The Federalist.
As mandated by Wisconsin law, “If a certificate is missing the address of a witness, the ballot may not be counted.”
In the Friday court order written by Judge Juan Colas, the Dane County Circuit Court affirmed that based upon the information presented to the court, “the definition of an absentee ballot witness ‘address,’” specifically “that an address is sufficient if it contains a street
