![]() The popularity of absentee voting exploded during the pandemic in 2020, with more than 40% of all voters casting mail ballots, a record high. President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in 2020 by just under 21,000 votes, four years after Trump narrowly won the state by a similar margin. The court’s 4-3 ruling has critical implications in the 2024 presidential race, in which Wisconsin will again be among a handful of battleground states. It’s good that the court still allows returning a ballot by mail, but voters should have as many options as possible, including drop boxes, said Shauntay Nelson, state director of the advocacy group All Voting is Local. Milwaukee County Clerk George Christenson, a Democrat, said ballot drop boxes are “monitored, secure, and provide citizens a way to cast their ballot safely.” He vowed to work within the confines of the law to provide as much access to the polls as possible in Milwaukee County, home to the state’s largest population of Democrats. Tony Evers are seeking reelection in key races. 9 primary and the fall election Republican U.S. The decision sets absentee ballot rules for the Aug. Twenty-nine other states allow for absentee ballot drop boxes, according to the U.S. Supporters argue drop boxes are a better option than mailing ballots because they go directly to the clerks and can’t be lost or delayed in transit. Democrats and others argue that many voters, particularly the elderly and disabled, have difficulty returning their ballots without the assistance of others. Republicans have argued that practice, known as ballot harvesting, is rife with fraud although there has been no evidence of that happening in Wisconsin. ![]() That means that anyone could still collect multiple ballots for voters and, instead of using a drop box, put them in the mail. However, the court didn’t address whether anyone other than the voter can return his or her own ballot by mail. (AP) - Wisconsin’s conservative-controlled Supreme Court ruled Friday that absentee ballot drop boxes may be placed only in election offices and that no one other than the voter can return a ballot in person, dealing a defeat to Democrats who said the decision would make it harder to vote in the battleground state.
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