WI: Lawsuit Argues Cash Bail Amendment Was Improperly On Ballot
A year after Wisconsin voters approved two statewide referendums, a Dane County judge is weighing whether they were improperly placed on the ballot and should be overturned.
Circuit Court Judge Rhonda Lanford heard arguments Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging whether the two ballot referendums — one to change cash bail laws and one to assess voters’ perspectives on public benefits — should have appeared on an April 2023 ballot.
The initial lawsuit was filed last year by EXPO Wisconsin, which organizes formerly incarcerated people, and WISDOM, a faith-based organization. The suit argued that the Wisconsin Elections Commission sent the initiatives to county clerks past the deadline required under state law.
In the time since Lanford first heard testimony in February of last year, those initiatives went before voters and passed.
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