Wisconsin judge to consider allowing disabled voters to vote electronically from home

A Wisconsin judge on Monday will consider allowing voters with disabilities to cast their ballots electronically from home as part of a case filed in April.

Dane County Circuit Judge Everett Mitchell will preside over a hearing Monday to determine whether to grant a temporary injunction allowing disabled voters to cast absentee ballots by such means in the Aug. 13 primary and the November general elections, the Associated Press reported.

Disability Rights Wisconsin, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, and four disabled voters filed the lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) in April over state statutes that "deny voters with disabilities the ability to receive, mark, and return their absentee ballot electronically."

The lawsuit argues that "Wisconsin must provide an option for voters with disabilities to receive, mark, and return their absentee ballot electronically."

The Republican National Committee filed an amicus brief against the motion for a temporary injunction, arguing that issuing the injunction "would upend the status quo."

WEC's opposition to the injunction argues that "Wisconsin law does not allow clerks to send absentee ballots electronically to anyone other than military and overseas voters," and "Expanding electronic balloting to additional voters would be virtually impossible to implement ahead of the upcoming elections and could put election security and uniformity at risk."