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Supreme Court Dismisses Racine Mobile Voting Case
We may never know if Racine’s mobile voting van was illegal.
The liberal justices on Wisconsin’s Supreme Court on Tuesday side-stepped that question by dismissing the lawsuit that challenged the van from back in 2022.
The liberal majority said Ken Brown wasn’t “aggrieved by an order” and therefore lacked standing to sue.
Brown is the past president of the Racine Republican Party, but he sued as an individual.
Brown said kicking his case aside sends a terrible message, and sets an even worse precedent.
“If a voting citizen in the city can't file the complaint against the clerk., then evidently the only object that can file the lawsuit is the rolling mobile van itself!!” Brown said.
Conservative Justice Rebecca Bradley said something similar in her dissent.
“If a local election official fails to follow the law, the legislature authorizes citizens to complain—first to WEC, and then to the courts if WEC disagrees or fails to act altogether. The majority adds hurdles the legislature imposed in other laws but not in this one. As a result, Brown’s complaint dies with WEC, unreviewed by the judiciary, and the People are left, once again, without a decision on fundamental issues of election law enacted to protect their sacred right to vote,” Bradley wrote.
Racine’s city clerk used the van, paid for with money from the Mark Zuckerbrg-funded Center for Tech and Civic Life, to collect ballots across the city.
Brown said there appears to be just one reason for Tuesday’s decision from the liberal justices.
“This court is willing to ignore the basic merits of the case and will twist legalese and common sense into pretzels to avoid having to even address the question before it,” Brown added. “This behavior is highly suspicious, and seems to be a ruling for Democrat partisan advantage reasons and nothing else.”
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