Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are aiming to stop election workers from fixing mistakes on absentee ballots after the state Assembly’s Committee on Campaigns and Elections advanced a plan this week.
According to the proposal, Assembly Bill 198, only voters or their witnesses would be able to fix mistakes on ballots—and no one else. Republicans have said that ballot curing, the term used to describe the fixing of errors on ballots, can lead to fraud.
Election clerks must contact the voter or the witness if they made a mistake on their portion of the ballot. Then the voter or the witness would be asked to correct their respective mistakes, according to local media reports.
“Because [absentee voting] is a privilege, there’s got to be some responsibility that the voter has to exercise that privilege,” said state Rep. Donna Rozar, reported The Center Square. “And I think that responsibility is to do it right and legally.” read more
“But Black people can’t do anything right, so we have to do it for them! C’MON MAN!”
I was just a whippersnapper during Bush v Gore, but didn’t the whole “hanging chad” thing that the Supreme Court ruled on mean that election workers weren’t to guess voters’ intentions by fixing ballots? Why is fixing ballots still a thing?
The world you see today is an example of what happens when incompetence and carelessness are never allowed to have consequences.
FIXING?!
“FIXING?!”
Yes, that term is problematic. Let’s take our cue from Obama and think of of it as votes “created or saved”.
Once a vote leaves a voter it is set in stone, any “fixes” are tampering and should be punishable by firing squad.