Wisconsin Supreme Court Orders No Absentee Ballots Be Mailed For Now
Friday, September 11th, 2020 -- 9:06 AM
(AP) -The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has ordered that no absentee ballots be mailed until it gives the go-ahead or makes any future ruling about who should be on the ballot in the battleground state.The order Thursday injects a measure of confusion into the voting process in Wisconsin a week before a state's deadline for absentee ballots to be mailed and less than two months before the Nov. 3 presidential election. It came in a lawsuit filed by Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins who asked the state's highest court to take up his challenge of a Wisconsin Elections Commission decision keeping him off the ballot. This decision comes a week before the election officials planned to send out absentee ballots to voters and some ballots may have already been sent out to voters, according to WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe.
The court order is asking WEC "to provide the court definite factual information about whether and when absentee ballots have, in fact, been printed, requested, and mailed." The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadline to provide this to the high court is 5:00 p.m. today. Rapper Kanye West, in a separate case, is also trying to get on the ballot after the commission rejected him. Municipal election clerks face a Sept. 17 deadline to mail ballots.
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