MADISON, Wis. — Today, election officials could have started processing absentee ballots in Wisconsin’s spring election, ensuring timelier results for Wisconsinites, but Republicans in the state legislature stopped that from happening.
A bipartisan bill that would have allowed election officials to start processing absentee ballots on the Monday before Election Day never made it out of the legislature this year after the Republican majority refused to meaningfully address the bill before packing their bags and adjourning in March for the entire year.
“Republicans abruptly went home for the year leaving loads of work undone, and Wisconsinites continue to feel the consequences,” said Lucy Ripp, communications director at A Better Wisconsin Together.
Amid other recent attacks on absentee voting from Donald Trump, Ripp said this is yet another example of Wisconsin Republicans abandoning commonsense and their constituents in favor of MAGA party bosses like Trump and Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos.
“Wisconsin Republicans, who are frequent absentee voters themselves, will do anything to score cheap political points, even if it means selling out and abandoning their constituents when it matters most,” Ripp said. “Monday processing is just one of many commonsense bills with bipartisan support that Republicans stopped from becoming law for no reason other than their own partisan game playing.”
You can reach your state legislator at 1-800-362-9472.
