Republican lawmakers have scuttled three emergency rules from the state’s Elections Commission, including one that deals with the rules for absentee voting.
The legislature’s rules committee on Monday voted down the rules, saying there’s no emergency and no need for the Elections Commission to work around the legislature. The absentee voting rule would have mandated one set of absentee voting rules for all election clerks in Wisconsin. The other two dealt with ballot challenges to either candidates, or their nominating paperwork. Without the emergency rules, local election clerks will simply use the rules in place from the last election here in Wisconsin.
