Judge orders Wisconsin Elections Commission to allow partial addresses on absentee ballots
MITCHELL SCHMIDT
Updated
A small percentage of voters and witnesses made mistakes on their absentee ballot certificates in 2020. Here are some examples of the kinds of errors that were either allowed or corrected by the clerk in order to permit the ballot to be counted.
A Dane County Circuit Court judge on Tuesday ordered the Wisconsin Elections Commission to implement new rules allowing local election officials to accept absentee ballots with partial witness address information.
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