A Wisconsin judge is scheduled to consider Monday whether to allow voters with disabilities to vote electronically from home as part of a lawsuit filed in April.
Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell is scheduled to hold a hearing Monday to decide whether to issue a temporary injunction allowing voters with disabilities to cast absentee ballots by such means in the Aug. 13 primary and November general elections, according to the Associated Press.
In April, the Wisconsin Disability Rights Association, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, and four voters with disabilities filed a lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) over a state law that “denies voters with disabilities the right to receive, complete and return their absentee ballot electronically.”
“Wisconsin must provide voters with disabilities the option to receive, complete, and return their absentee ballot electronically,” the lawsuit argues.
The Republican National Committee filed an amicus brief opposing the motion for a preliminary injunction, arguing that issuing one would “upend the status quo.”
The WEC opposed the injunction, arguing that “Wisconsin law does not permit clerks to send absentee ballots electronically to anyone other than military and overseas voters” and that “expanding electronic voting to other voters would be virtually impossible to implement before the next election and could jeopardize the security and integrity of elections.”