Website will help overseas Wisconsin voters get ballots
MADISON—The state elections board is creating a website to help military and overseas voters from Wisconsin request absentee ballots.
Currently, Wisconsin voters who are overseas have to contact their municipal clerks directly to have absentee ballots sent to them. But the Government Accountability Board is developing a single website to simplify the process.
Board spokesman Reid Magney says those voters will simply enter their information and the site will let them print out a proper absentee ballot for that election. The site will also provide the necessary information for mailing the ballot to the correct clerk.
Magney says the site should be finished by mid-September.
A Wisconsin Public Radio report says the project is being paid for through a $1.9 million grant from the Defense Department.
Jul 5, 2012 at 8:21 a.m.
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This entire scenario is an outrage, and has been going on for years. It is easier for illegal voters to caste a ballot, than for our military members.
The Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act was enacted in 1986...expanded in 2009 (becoming the MOVE Act), and they are just now enforcing it?
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2010/Octob...
Why haven't the clerks in Wisconsin been charged for failing to follow the law, when it happened again THIS year?
" In addition to the 60 who missed the deadline, as of Monday evening, another 371 hadn’t responded to repeated requests from GAB to provide proof the federal government wants to ensure that states are complying with the MOVE Act, Robinson said."
http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/wi-gab-...
http://gab.wi.gov/node/2280
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