Wisconsin Public Radio: Wisconsin Supreme Court restores ballot drop box access

Sarah Lehr from Wisconsin Public Radio reports on the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s decision to restore ballot drop box access.

Voters in Wisconsin once again have the option to return absentee ballots via drop box, Wisconsin’s Supreme Court has ruled.

The 4-3 decision released Friday reverses a near-total ban on ballot drop boxes, which was handed down by the state’s high court two years before.

The ruling comes just four months before November’s presidential decision in a state where close elections are the norm. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won Wisconsin by just over 20,000 votes, which was a statewide margin of victory of less than 1 percent.

Read the whole article at Wisconsin Public Radio.