The Courts' Handling Of Election Matters In Wisconsin-By Harsha Sankar(December 2020)

Three dissenting Wisconsin justices agreed with the Trump campaign’s claims that election officials in Dane and Milwaukee Counties violated state laws by instructing election clerks to correct small errors in the addresses listed for witnesses of absentee ballot signatures. They were right because to object to this practice because ballots that have improper addresses for its witnesses could later be deemed to be invalid.

They also objected to Dane County accepting absentee ballots at a preelection “Democracy in the Park” event in Madison, regarding it as a form of unauthorized early in-person voting. Again, they were right to object to this because no one really knows who submitted those ballots. How can anyone be certain registered voters turned in those ballots?

The dissenters did not address a third Trump claim that voters claiming “indefinitely confined” status due to the COVID-19 pandemic were illegally allowed to evade photo ID requirements. However, Common Law cites that if two laws contradict each other, only the law that is regarded as supreme should be given consideration. Obviously, in this case, the voter ID requirement is the supreme law in this matter because it is necessary to prove one's identity. Any law contradicting its purpose by stating voter ID is not necessary has to be declared null and void. The Wisconsin Supreme Court should have advised that the Voter ID law should have totally superseded "indefinitely confinement" laws.

Legal Team Trump was only one vote away from winning Wisconsin. They should have earlier approached the executive and legislative branches about these issues but they failed to do so.