League of Women Voters sues for uniform absentee ballot curing process

A new lawsuit from the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin argues allowing clerks to decide whether or not to offer absentee voters a chance to correct information on their mail-in ballots violates the state Constitution.

The group is asking a Dane County judge to order a uniform and mandatory process for addressing defective ballots and notifying those who mail them.

The suit, filed Tuesday in Dane County Circuit Court, claims giving local clerks the discretion to create their own procedures for telling voters about how to fix missing or incomplete information on absentee ballot envelopes violates state Due Process provisions. The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin argues that’s because clerks in some communities can decide not to notify voters, who then won’t know their ballots weren’t counted until after the election.

“Accordingly, municipal clerks may arbitrarily determine whether and which defective ballots cast by mail-in absentee voters will ultimately be counted,” said League attorney Jon Sherman.




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