Friday, January 01, 2021

WI Ass Pubbies Look at Election Laws

Apparently the Assembly Republicans have heard from the SEVENTY PERCENT of furious Trump voters.  Maybe Cock Robin Vos will get off his throne.  But maybe not.

[Rep.] Bernier said she also will bring back up a change allowing in-person, absentee voters to feed their ballot directly into the tabulator. That change has been “sitting in the Legislature for quite some time” and it would help local clerks count absentee ballots faster.

“That would reduce an extraordinary amount of absentee ballots, and the question about the envelopes and where they’ve been, and whether they are accurate. That would reduce the number greatly,” she said.

Bernier indicated the Republican caucus is split on whether to allow local clerks to count mail-in absentee or early in-person ballots ahead of election day. She said she does not favor that change, because municipal clerks lack the time and resources to do it, and she lacks confidence that early results will not somehow leak....

We think that when the ballot is fed into the machine the voter should get a paper receipt which tells them whom or what they voted for.  That way--just in case the machine has been programmed to favor Democrats or ridiculously expensive school referenda--the voter can object, loudly, right then and there.

Of course, that won't do jack-squat if Dominion/Sequoia issues an "update" (har-de-har-har) which is jammed through the machines late on election night, but it's a start.

 

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