Appeals Court Makes It More Difficult to Disqualify Absentee Ballots in Wisconsin

Published on July 15, 2024

An appeals court in Wisconsin has ruled that witnesses for absentee voters do not need to give their full addresses, in a rejection of a challenge from legislators in the state. Wisconsin law requires a witness for each absentee vote, with witnesses giving their name and address. A county judge in January said that trivial errors in witness addresses such as missing ZIP codes must not cause those absentee ballots to be rejected. The judge also determined that address means “a place where the witness can be communicated with” and that the witness address requirement is met if the face of the witness certificate “contains sufficient information to allow a reasonable person in the community to identify a location where the witness may be communicated with.”...

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