While the Wisconsin Supreme Court seems to have ruled in favor of election integrity, it also showed partiality toward one political party. 

From The Epoch Times. The Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a split decision on June 11 upholding a lower court’s ban on the use of mobile voting sites in the upcoming presidential election, while allowing the designation of alternate absentee ballot sites in line with policy in place since 2016.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court granted a partial stay in a case that challenged the legality of using mobile voting vans as in-person absentee voting locations and the designation of alternate absentee ballot sites in the City of Racine, according to the 12-page order filed on June 11.

The high court unanimously ruled to keep in place a Racine County judge’s January ruling that the use of a mobile van (called a “mobile election unit” or MEU) was unlawful. The mobile voting van, which was used to facilitate absentee voting, violated state election laws and unfairly benefited Democrats by visiting more Democrat parts of Racine in a primary election in August 2022, according to the lower court. …

Absentee Ballot Site Designation

In a victory for Democrats, however, the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority decided 4–3 to grant a stay on part of the lower court’s decision about the designation of absentee ballot sites.

In granting the stay, the high court is allowing municipalities across the battleground state to use the method in place since 2016 to determine where to locate early voting sites for the upcoming August primary and November presidential election.

Wisconsin state law prohibits locating any early voting site in a place that gives an advantage to any political party, and, in addition to ruling that the use of mobile vans violated this law, the circuit court found that an advantage to a political party could only be avoided if voters in the immediate vicinity of the absentee voting location cast their ballots exactly the same as voters who live near the municipal clerk’s office.

The circuit court’s decision curtailed the number of locations that municipalities were allowed to designate as alternate absentee ballot sites and, in the view of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, “effectively reinstated the one-location rule” that had been struck down in prior litigation. …

The majority opinion indicated that there was little harm in granting a stay that would keep the same criteria in place for determining early voting locations. The criteria have been used since 2016, when the one-location rule was struck down.

“At this stage, just months before the August primary and November general elections, there is a risk that the circuit court’s ruling will disrupt ongoing preparations for those elections by creating uncertainty about which sites may be designated as alternate absentee balloting locations,” the majority opinion states. …

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Photo Credit: Soho A Studio via Canva Pro)