The court gave officials just four hours to collect data from 1,850 clerks.
The latest trouble in Wisconsin centers on Green Party candidates Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker. To get on the ballot, Hawkins and Walker were required to submit 2,000 valid signatures. But the paperwork they filed had a problem: Many signature sheets included an address, a motel in South Carolina, that was different from the one that Walker listed in her sworn declaration of candidacy. Walker had an opportunity to explain this discrepancy but declined.
court ordered the commission to reveal who has requested absentee ballots, who has been mailed a ballot already, and when these ballots were mailed. It also demanded to knowrequested the ballots to be printed, implying the existence of some conspiracy to rush them out. In the meantime, the conservative majority effectively shut down the state’s election machinery, suspending the printing of more absentee ballots.
that “it would be catastrophic to this election if ballots were to change after being sent to some or all electors.” Municipalities would have to tell voters who’ve already received a ballotto return it, “which could result in voters returning the wrong ballot or multiple ballots. This would create a chaotic situation for election officials in paring and counting returned ballots.”
Under all this disarray lies a puzzle: Why, exactly, did the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s conservatives force the commission to turn over all this information? The court could plausibly claim to need details about balloting to determine whether it’s really too late to add names to the ballot.
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