Remember the controversy during the 2020 election over the use in some states of unmonitored, insecure (and often illegal) ballot drop boxes? A lawsuit on the issue in what could be a crucial swing state in 2024 is set to open on Monday in their Supreme Court–and it now has the support of both state and national Republicans. More on that in a minute.
via Democracy Docket:
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hold oral argument on Monday to decide whether election officials can reinstate secure ballot drop boxes for the 2024 election.
At next week’s argument, the state Supreme Court’s majority-liberal bench will consider whether to overturn a July 2022 decision in Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, which resulted in a statewide prohibition on the use of drop boxes.
In Teigen, the court’s then-conservative majority held that drop boxes are unauthorized under Wisconsin law…
