Wisconsin Gov. Urges State Supreme Court to Overturn Ruling on Absentee Ballot Drop Boxes

Wisconsin’s Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat, has asked the state’s Supreme Court to overturn its 2022 ruling limiting the use of drop boxes to receive absentee ballots in elections. In a brief filed with the court on April 2—the day of Wisconsin’s presidential primary—Mr. Evers argued the 2022 decision by the state Supreme Court “imposed one-size-fits-all, judicially created constraints on these municipal clerks’ authority to administer elections in a manner that is both responsive to the needs of their unique communities and compliant with the law.” “Teigen should be overturned,” the governor added. In the July 2022 case of Teigen v. Wisconsin Elections Commission, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, found that drop boxes which allow people to drop off ballots cast by themselves and others were illegal under Wisconsin law....