The executive order
President Trump signed
this week
would create
a national list of U.S. citizens
eligible to vote
and restrict mail-in ballots.
It's your belief that
this would not be
in effect for
the November elections
or, in effect ever?
My suspicion is
never in effect ever.
It's sort of a
backdoor way to create
time limits and
new administrative hurdles
for voters to go through
under the auspices
of addressing
essentially what are
conspiracy theories
about absentee balloting.
So
if it were
to go into effect
what would
the ramifications be
in Wisconsin?
So in Wisconsin
by way of example
you can request
an absentee ballot
five days
before an election
and you are eligible
to vote
if you've been a resident
of Wisconsin
for 28 days.
So a new resident
of Wisconsin
could come
and ask for a ballot
and have the right to vote.
Under the executive order
however
that name and
that address had to
have been submitted
to the U.S. government
prior to 60 days
before the election.
So you create conflicts
between the statutory rights
under state law
with this mailing deadline
and now
the government's
going to control whether
they will even
mail your ballot and
how do you undo that?