The Wisconsin Legislature’s joint rules committee says local election clerks can’t help voters when they make a mistake on an absentee ballot envelope.
State Representative Steve Nass is chair of that Republican-controlled committee.
He says the Wisconsin Elections Commission is telling clerks to violate the law. Nass says clerks have two choices in that situation – send it back to the voter or set it aside and don’t count it.
Clerks have been allowed to correct the ballots since the 2016 election.
Democratic Representative Gary Hebl of Sun Prairie says the change will just cause trouble for voters and clerks and could lead to more lawsuits.
