A crowd of 50 gathered in Veterans Park on Main Street in River Falls on Jan. 21 in single-digit temperatures to show support for fairly drawn voting district maps.
WEC dismisses residency complaint filed by neighbors against Wisconsin lawmaker
Six people, including neighbors to both residences Zimmerman owns, swore to the WEC he doesn t live in River Falls.
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In a 4-2 vote, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has dismissed complaints filed by neighbors of Rep. Shannon Zimmerman alleging he doesn’t live in the district he serves.
After a closed session, the commission notified complainants Thursday that it “finds that there is no reasonable suspicion that a violation of Wis. Stat. §§ 12.05 and 12.13 has occurred, and the matter has been dismissed.”
When Zimmerman was first elected to represent District 30 in 2016, he told reporters he had changed his “main residence” from his town of Clifton home to one in River Falls. He lists a River Falls home as his voting address and has said he lives there with his son, attorney Nick Zimmerman. However, complaints made by neighbors of that address allege he hasn’t actually moved t
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Thy neighbor s vote
Now, say you want to vote again by, for example, appropriating your neighbor s absentee ballot.
It would help to know whether heâs already requested a ballot. For that, youâd need to look him up on the stateâs public voter database, myvote.wi.gov. Youâll also need to know his date of birth.
If he hasnât asked for a ballot yet, you could pretend to be him and request it. Unless youâve also stolen his driverâs license, youâd have to indicate at this point that heâs indefinitely confined to get around the license requirement.