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MADISON - Two suburban Milwaukee voters asked a judge Monday to block the use of absentee ballot drop boxes in Wisconsin.
With the assistance of a conservative legal group, the pair made the request three days after the state Supreme Court declined to take a separate case that challenged the legality of ballot drop boxes. Drop boxes were widely used in Wisconsin last year in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
The latest lawsuit also seeks to prevent voters from having someone else return their absentee ballot for them.
If the suit were successful, voters would be barred from handing in the ballots of their spouses and neighbors. Madison officials would be blocked from reprising the "Democracy in the Park" events they held last year that allowed voters to drop off their ballots with poll workers who were stationed in more than 200 parks around the city.