Judge Rejects League of Women Voters Appeal on Absentee Ballot Witness Addresses

Thursday, October 27th, 2022 -- 10:00 AM

(Bob Hague, WRN) A judge declines to issue a temporary injection allowing Wisconsin clerks to accept absentee ballots with missing information for witnesses.

According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, a ballot witness address must include a street name, street number and municipality. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin sued, seeking a ruling that an address can only be considered missing when the entire field is blank.

A Dane County judge on Wednesday rejected the league’s request to allow ballots with incomplete addresses to be counted. Judge Nia Trammell said she feared that would cause confusion.

As of Wednesday, more than 300,00 ballots had been received by clerks, according to the elections commission.

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