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On @ThisWeekABC, @RandPaul alleged, "In Wisconsin, tens of thousands of absentee votes had only names on them, no address. Historically those were thrown out, this time they weren't. They made special accommodations because they said, oh, it’s a pandemic..." Not so.
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In fact, in 2016, Republican members of Wisconsin's Election Commission proposed allowing clerks to fix absentee ballots for those who filled them out but left out, say, their county or zip code etc. The Democrats agreed to GOP proposal, which passed unanimously...
The GOP guidance was in place for the '16 election Trump won by roughly 23,000, with no complaint about this guidance. As Wisc High Court wrote, "Campaign offers no reason for waiting years to challenge this approach, much less after this election. None exists."...
So Senator Paul's charge that this was made up for the pandemic is not true. But he also does not say he has actual evidence that this led to any illegal votes being cast...
As @AnnJacobsMKE of the @WI_Elections Commission notes "Why should a voter's ballot we be thrown out for a clerk adding a zip code?" She says arguments like Sen Paul's is part of a "game of gotcha" to "disenfranchise voters for following the instructions of their clerks."...
This thread shows that this stuff is complicated to unpack, making it much easier on live television for people to cloud it with false assertions than it is for live interviewers to get into all the reasons the notions are false. Ruling, btw, is here: https://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=315395
And, here's what @WI_Elections Commission has to say about it https://elections.wi.gov/node/7275
