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MADISON - Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate are scheduled Wednesday to approve legislation that would limit the availability of ballot drop boxes in some communities, create more paperwork for absentee voters and require disabled voters to provide copies of their IDs to vote in more cases.
The bills face almost certain vetoes from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers if they get to him.
Republicans and Democrats have been warring over election rules after Joe Biden narrowly defeated Donald Trump in Wisconsin in last year s presidential election.
Republicans argued overhauling the state s absentee policies would build trust in the state s voting system, while Democrats contended the legislation sows needless doubts about an election that was conducted properly. Recounts in Milwaukee and Dane counties and several court rulings confirmed Biden s win in Wisconsin.
Opinion | Vos is spending taxpayer money to do work already being done by a respected state agency. He won’t even reveal the names of the detectives. You would hope that one would be Clouseau. At least then we’d get some comic relief out of it.
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MADISON - Sixteen people who registered to vote using the address of a UPS Store in La Crosse will not be charged with voter fraud.
La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke said he determined the people were legitimate Wisconsin voters who did not intend to break the law when they used the UPS Store as their voting address.
Wisconsin law requires people to register at the address where they live and not necessarily where they receive mail.
The issue with voters registered at the wrong address surfaced in a report last week from the state Elections Commission that identified 41 instances of potential voter fraud since August 2020. That represents a fraction of a percentage point of the millions of ballots cast last fall and this spring.