Democrats and other leftists long have advocated, with frequent success, for a voting month, or voting week, instead of an election day as specified in the U.S. Constitution.
They also love mail ballots, absentee ballots and counting ballots that arrive after the election period has closed.
And that scheme now has bitten them, in a dispute in Wisconsin.
Because a judge has ruled that tens of thousands of Democrats who already had returned their mail primary ballots in an extended voting period cannot get a re-do.
The Democrats demanded that privilege because their ballot has changed, some candidates dropped out, some joined, one dropped out then rejoined.
And they complain that everyone should have their old votes canceled and they be given new ballots that are updated.
A report at the Washington Examiner said a judge has decided that’s not happening.
It was the Wisconsin Democrat Party that sued the Wisconsin Elections Commission demanding that voters who already returned their absentee ballots be allowed a do-over.
The report said, “The lawsuit was filed after more than 80,000 absentee ballots had already been submitted and after candidates altered the race by dropping out or reentering.”
David Conway, a judge in Dane County Circuit Court, said state law doesn’t allow the Democrats to do that.
“The unambiguous language of the statute does not allow a voter to spoil an absentee ballot after it is returned,” Conway wrote.
Devin Remiker, the chair of the state Democrats, immediately complained the party wasn’t getting what it wanted.
“The decision to change the rules around voting that were a long-standing practice before Republicans’ attempts to suppress absentee voting was wrong, and we disagree with the ruling today,” he charged.
The Republicans had another attitude: “Election laws should not be changed to rescue one party from the consequences of its own actions,” said state GOP chief Brian Schimming.
Democrats in Wisconsin, like their party in other states, this year have been in turmol.
For example, “Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, long viewed as a front-runner, dropped out of the race July 17 after reports that her campaign mishandled finances,” the report said. “One day later, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley reentered the contest after suspending his campaign July 8.”
Then there was Missy Hughes, formerly of the state Economic Development Corp., who suspended a campaign.
The elections panel earlier said absentee ballots cannot be “spoiled” and replaced simply because a voter changes his or her mind, or because a candidate withdraws.
“There are no ‘do-overs’ in this scenario,” the panel ruled.
The report noted the state actually had allowed that practice previously, before a judge ruled in 2022 that was unlawful, a decision that moved up to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
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[ H/T WorldNetDaily ]
