NEW: Wisconsin's conservative-led Supreme Court ruled that absentee voter drop boxes are illegal
The ruling is a blow to Democrats in the battleground state before the 2022 and 2024 elections. Biden narrowly beat Trump in Wisconsin by just under 21,000 votes in 2020.The court ruled that Wisconsin voters will be required to mail or return completed absentee ballots in person to designated officials.
Voters will also only be allowed to return absentee ballots in drop boxes in elected officials' offices, per the court. "Wisconsin's election statutes require that to return an absentee ballot in person, voters must personally deliver their ballot to the clerk or the clerk's authorized representative," the conservative majority court wrote in the FridayThe court did not address the question of whether anyone other than the voter can return their own ballot by mail, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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