The Wisconsin Elections Commission is being asked to outlaw a practice called “ballot harvesting.”
It involves partisan outside groups helping send or return to local officials large numbers of absentee ballots.
The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty could be a precursor to a lawsuit over efforts to boost mail-in voting during the coronavirus pandemic.
Three-fourths of all votes used absentee ballots during the April presidential primary.
Wisconsin state law doesn’t specifically outlaw ballot harvesting and that’s why the firm is asking the commission to enact the rule banning it.
