The decision by the court’s liberal majority, delivered four months before the November election, reverses a ruling by conservative jurists two years ago.
“Our decision today does not force or require that any municipal clerks use drop boxes,” Justice Ann Walsh Bradley, a liberal, wrote for the four-justice majority Friday. “It merely acknowledges,” she added, what Wisconsin law “has always meant: that clerks may lawfully utilize secure drop boxes in an exercise of their statutorily conferred discretion.”
For much of the 2010s, Democrats were relegated to Wisconsin’s policymaking sidelines as Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature reshaped the state in a more conservative image, including by weakening the power of labor unions. When the union limits were challenged, the Wisconsin Supreme Court, then controlled by conservatives, gave the new policy a judicial blessing.
The mayor of Madison, Satya Rhodes-Conway, a Democrat, also praised the ruling in a statement. “I am so pleased that common sense has prevailed and that Wisconsin now has a high court interested in expanding voting rights, rather than restricting them,” she said.
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