Monday absentee ballot processing bill stalls again due to lack of GOP support
Despite past bipartisan backing, a Republican state lawmaker says he has to “punt” an initiative to let election clerks process absentee ballots before election day because it doesn’t have enough GOP support.
In September, Republicans and Democrats in the state Assembly stood side-by-side and unveiled a series of bills to update Wisconsin’s election laws. One of those initiatives is known as early processing or Monday processing. Requested by clerks, it would let them process absentee ballots the day before an election so that results can be released sooner once the polls close.
The Monday process concept has been unable to clear the Legislature for several years. It was last introduced in 2023.
But during a Thursday hearing before the Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections, state Rep. Scott Krug, R-Rome, said that while he thinks Monday processing is the “most important reform” lawmakers can do to restore confidence in elections, there aren’t enough Republicans in the state Senate behind it. Krug used a football analogy to make his point.
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