After leftists narrowly flipped the balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court last year, the bench agreed to hear a case that could overturn a prior decision prohibiting ballot drop boxes.
The new Democrat-aligned majority agreed to hear a challenge brought by leftist election meddler Marc Elias’ law group to undo a 2022 decision that said voters must return their absentee ballots in person to a clerk’s office, the executive director of the Board of Elections Commissioners, or another alternate site designated by election officials.
The Elias Law Group brought the suit on behalf of Priorities USA — a George Soros-backed political action committee — Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans, and a sole voter. Priorities USA also committed at least $75 million to helping President Joe Biden win reelection.
Oral arguments are set to begin May 13.
Chief Justice Annette Ziegler and Justice Rebecca Bradley dissented from the court’s decision to take up the case, saying the left-wing bench “aims to increase the electoral prospects of its preferred political party.”
“Finding the decision politically inconvenient, and emboldened by a new makeup of the court, this new majority embraces the opportunity to overturn (the 2022 ruling). The majority’s decision to do so will upset the status quo of election administration mere months before a presidential election and lead to chaos and confusion for Wisconsin voters and election officials,” Bradley wrote in her dissent.
The court ruled in 2022 that unelected officials do not get to usurp the authority of the state legislature
