Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said the legislature 'has long maintained' using drop boxes for absentee ballots is illegal. His own staff noted his concern only arose during the 2020 election, when the boxes gained widespread attention.
By Amy Sherman • August 1, 2022The memo from Wolfe outlines a handful of locations for municipalities to offer drop boxes. In addition to the clerk’s office, it instructs them to be placed in"convenient, accessible locations, including places close to public transportation routes, near or on college campuses, and public buildings, such as libraries and community centers familiar to voters and easy to find.
Since the letter from Vos and Fitzgerald cites this particular guidance and notes that they"wholeheartedly support" the methods they listed, it would seem that they supported such drop boxes at locations other than the clerk’s office, as long as they were secured and locked.from Wolfe, the commission was aware of 528 drop boxes across the state in 2020. For the following spring election, there were 570, including ones in at least 66 of the state’s 72 counties.
So, when Vos says Republicans have long maintained the boxes were illegal,"long" would have had to mean less than two years ago, which is when that letter was sent. When we asked Vos’ office for evidence of the long opposition, Joyce did not point us to earlier statements or prior legal action as backup. Rather, she pointed us to the very same letter that we just examined.Let’s return to the issue: How long have legislative leaders maintained that the law did not allow such drop boxes?
Vos’ office did not point to any pre-2020 letters, legislative bills, lawsuits or other actions meant to curb them. Instead, Joyce also circled back to 2020, writing that Vos"has opposed unsecured drop boxes since they became an issue in the 2020 election."
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