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RandySF

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Sun Jul 5, 2020, 02:56 PM Jul 2020

More than 80% of GOP members of the Wisconsin Legislature voted absentee in April election

MADISON – Wisconsin Republicans who oppose making it easier for people to vote absentee have taken advantage of the opportunity to vote by mail in recent elections, with more than 80% of GOP members of the state Legislature doing it in April.

An analysis of absentee voting records provided to The Associated Press by the liberal advocacy group A Better Wisconsin Together showed a dramatic increase in absentee voting in the April presidential primary and state Supreme Court election. Republicans fought against making that election mail-in only as Democrats and Gov. Tony Evers proposed.

In the November 2018 and 2016 presidential elections, only around 33% of Republican state senators and 18% or less of Assembly members voted absentee. In April, that jumped to 81% of Assembly Republicans, 51 out of 63, and 83% of Senate Republicans, 15 out of 19.

President Donald Trump and Republicans have alleged, without evidence, that absentee voting leads to widespread fraud. Trump last week said the growing use of mail-in ballots is the “biggest risk” to his reelection, and his chances may hinge on whether he can successfully block efforts to make voting by mail easier during the pandemic.

Some Wisconsin Republicans were outspoken after the April election against a plan by the bipartisan state elections commission to mail absentee ballot applications to 2.7 million voters. Wisconsin lawmakers have also previously passed laws limiting the time that votes can be cast absentee before an election; limiting locations where voters can vote in-person absentee; and made it more difficult to obtain the ballot.



https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/29/wisconsin-vote-mail-majority-state-gop-voted-absentee-april/3277865001/

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More than 80% of GOP members of the Wisconsin Legislature voted absentee in April election (Original Post) RandySF Jul 2020 OP
effing evil no surprise here. mucifer Jul 2020 #1
One really can't make it any easier to vote by mail in Wisconsin. You can request a ballot on-line, Hoyt Jul 2020 #2
KIck! Cha Jul 2020 #3
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
2. One really can't make it any easier to vote by mail in Wisconsin. You can request a ballot on-line,
Sun Jul 5, 2020, 03:10 PM
Jul 2020

by mail, by FAX, etc.

Just vote. In states like Wisconsin -- and even my red state -- it's easy even if they don't automatically send you an absentee ballot.

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