So it's just sitting outside unsecured in front of city hall.
What could go wrong?
It had not been anchored and unlocked yet.
The drop box was placed outside of City Hall and relabeled on Friday with the phrase “Official Drop Box” with the intention of using it to collect payments, ballots and other important requests, Bernarde wrote in a Wednesday afternoon news release. It was also locked and labeled, “Kiosk closed.”
The guidance cites the Priorities decision, which points to Wisconsin Statute 6.855. and says, “(the law) requires only that the ballot be delivered to a location the municipal clerk, within his or her discretion, designates.”
The Wisconsin Elections Commission shared in its guidance a reference to Wisconsin Statute 12.60(1)(a), which states that anyone who “by abduction, duress, or any fraudulent device or contrivance, impede(s) or prevent(s) the free exercise of the franchise at an election” could be guilty of a Class I felony. The Commission urged clerks to contact law enforcement if anyone tampers with, defaces, destroys, unlawfully empties, or interrupts, impedes or prevents the use of a drop box.
Bernarde said the drop box is not available while the investigation is ongoing. Voters may return absentee ballots directly to the clerk using the silver “Payment Box” in front of City Hall.
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