Early vote rally in Wausau. MWC photo by Mike Leischner
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) – A Wisconsin judge ruled in favor of a voter on Tuesday who claimed that the city of Racine had broken state law by using a van to transport absentee ballots to several sites across the city.
Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz of Racine County Circuit Court found, according to the Daily Wire, that the city’s use of a mobile van for absentee voting in August 2022 was illegal and unfairly favored Democrats in a primary election.
The news outlet noted further that the lawsuit discovered that funds from Mark Zuckerberg’s nonprofit Center for Tech and Civic Life, which has been accused of using election funding in ways that favor Democrats, were used to purchase the vehicle.
“Nothing in the statutory language detailing the procedures by which absentee ballots may be cast mentions mobile van absentee ballot sites or anything like them. Such an interpretation was and is contrary to law,” Judge Gasiorkiewicz stated.
“The statute in question clearly and unequivocally indicates that chosen alternate absentee balance balloting sites cannot afford an advantage to any political party. The filings in this case clearly indicated that the alternate sites chosen clearly favored members of the Democratic Party or those with known Democratic Party leanings,” he continued.
In the two weeks leading up to the 2022 election, the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty testified that there were nearly two dozen locations in Racine where a mobile van was parked for many hours to conduct in-person absentee voting.
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