Dem Wisconsin Gov Tony Evers’s office said he’ll sign a Republican-backed bill expected to pass the state Assembly on Thursday which would allow county clerks to begin pre-processing mail-in ballots the day before election day, provided the state Senate passes the same bill, the AP reports.
“Gov Evers will veto any bill that enables politicians to interfere with our elections or makes it harder for eligible Wisconsinites to cast their ballot, but if there are common-sense proposals that help ensure Wisconsin’s elections continue to be fair, secure, and safe, he’ll certainly consider signing them,” said an Evers spokeswoman Britt Cudaback about the proposal, which allows workers not to count the votes but to sort them out and get ready for tabulation starting after polls close.
The change would’ve gone an extremely long way – or maybe even all the way – to preventing disgraced former President’s 2020 election night meltdown in which MAGA voters jammed polls on election day and Dem voters mailed in their ballots, causing his lead to evaporate then flip to Joe Biden the next day as the counting wrapped up. Last year the Republican-majority state Senate rejected a similar bill that the Assembly had passed, at least in part because of what batshit MAGA freak state Representative Janel Brandtjen “gives bad actors an extra day to cheat.”