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Absentee Voting Update

03/02/2022 10:49:26 AM

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The spring election will be held on April 5, 2022. Local offices to be elected may include school board, city council, county supervisors, mayor, and more. State judicial offices include Court of Appeals judge in District IV, including Madison and surrounding counties, and Circuit Court judges in a number of counties, including Dane, Iowa, and Sauk. You can find information about your local ballot at MyVote Wisconsin. 

Registered voters may request absentee ballots at MyVote Wisconsin. Any voter may request absentee ballots for the year. Voters who need to vote absentee due to disability, age, illness, or infirmity are allowed to certify that they are an indefinitely confined voter on their absentee ballot request. These voters will have ballots mailed to them for each election until they don’t return a ballot. 

In the fast-moving current of election law changes, there are often new developments. In January the Wisconsin Supreme Court determined that drop boxes could be used to return absentee ballots for the spring primary election on February 15th, and voters could continue the practice of asking a person of their choice to mail or return their completed absentee ballot. However, the court is considering an expedited appeal of the case to determine the legality of drop boxes for future Wisconsin elections, including April 5.

***UPDATE (as of March 3) FOR APRIL 5 SPRING ELECTION***
Due to new rules, plan to return your absentee ballot by mail or by delivering it to your clerk's office rather than a drop box. Additionally, if possible, voters should plan on returning their own absentee ballot. Voters with disabilities may ask for accommodations to return their ballot. If you have questions about these changes, contact your municipal clerk.

Volunteer election observers needed: The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin is recruiting volunteers from across the state to serve as election observers during the April 5 election. Volunteer election observers help ensure we have a fair election by watching for signs of voter disenfranchisement and intimidation and by monitoring the way Wisconsin’s election laws and procedures are being applied. Even if you only have a couple of hours on Election Day, you can still make a difference. You don't need to be a League member to volunteer as an observer. To learn more and sign up, see the League of Women Voters website here.

Black women and the right to vote: For an interesting look at the role of Black women in the movement for women’s suffrage, check out the video “Black Women and the Right to Vote: The History You Didn't Learn,” by TIME Magazine. The History You Didn't Learn is a series that sheds light on past events that may have been omitted, misleading, or just downright wrong in our history education in school. This nine-minute episode looks at the work of Black voting rights activists throughout history and how they were often sidelined by the mainstream suffrage movement.
 

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