The Fouled-Up WI Election Commission Gets Slapped

A judge in Marinette County slapped the Wisconsin Elections Commission hard.  This is the long, but clear, explanation of the case:

...In a case earlier this year in Ozaukee County, a voter challenged the commission’s legal authority to operate MyVote, an online portal for voters to request absentee ballots. WEC argued that all requests made through the website are “email” requests, an allowable method of requesting an absentee ballot under Wisconsin election law. 

WEC officials submitted sworn testimony stating that when an elector seeks an absentee ballot through MyVote the “request” for the ballot is a form generated by the system once the individual completes the online process. The argument is a stretch, to be sure, but Ozaukee County Judge Steven Cain bought it.  [Obviously a dumbass, this Cain.]  Cain held that all requests made through MyVote were “email” requests, and allowable under the statute. The plaintiff is appealing that ruling. 

But the allowance seems to have created a snag for WEC. If an applicant requests an absentee ballot by email, Wisconsin statutes require the elector to include “in the envelope” a copy of the “request” for the ballot “bearing an original signature.”  [Can't be done, as the MyVote request was electronic, not paper.]

WEC, according to the lawsuit, provided no guidance indicating any of that. More so, while the Ozaukee County case was proceeding, WEC created the new, color-coded absentee ballot return envelopes. Agency officials designated the envelopes as “Forms EL-122,” and required election clerks to use them. The envelopes contained a new requirement that applicants certify under penalty of law that they requested the ballot and that the EL-122 is “an original or a copy of” the “request.”  

“This language found in the new EL-122 ran directly contrary to the sworn testimony provided in the [Ozaukee County] case upon which Judge Cain relied,” Scott said. And it opened up the Hobson’s choice to hundreds of thousands of electors who prefer voting by absentee ballot. ...

 

Which "Hobson's Choice"?

 ...the election regulator puts Badger State voters in the untenable position of committing election fraud or opting not to cast an absentee ballot. ...

The WEC staff's lying, lying, lying, has caught up to them.  They lied in Ozaukee county, lied to the election clerks, and then..........BOOM!!...........the lies were exposed in Marinette County.

Now the WEC will have to come up with new and improved lies and double-dealing chicanery in order to have a November election.

(Or was the objective to foul it up so much that the New York City/Zuckerberg crowd will "find" 290,000 Biden votes in Brown, Kenosha, Dane, Racine, and Milwaukee counties overnight?  Hmmmmmm.)