Judge Says Wisconsin Voters With a Print Disability Can Receive Electronic Ballots

A Wisconsin judge on June 25 ruled that some voters in the state can receive electronic ballots, finding in favor of residents who say a disability prevents them from reading or marking a paper ballot independently. “Provisions prohibiting municipal clerks from distributing absentee ballots by email … are unenforceable as applied to absent electors, as defined by Wis. Stat. § 6.20, who self-certify to having a print disability,” Dane County Circuit Court Judge Everett Mitchell said in a two-page order. He defined a print disability as a disability that prevents voters “from being able to independently read and/or mark a paper absentee ballot, including blindness or a physical disability that impairs manual dexterity.”...