Wisconsin communities are free to use paper ballots, elections commission rules | Mitchell Schmidt | Wisconsin State Journal
Wisconsin’s smallest communities do not need permission from the Wisconsin Elections Commission to stop using electronic voting machines, the agency ordered this week. Under the commission’s decision, Wisconsin towns, villages and municipalities still must provide at least one electronic voting machine at a polling location to accommodate voters with disabilities. But other than that, nothing prevents communities with fewer than 7,500 residents to stop using the machines. The decision stems from a complaint filed against the town of Thornapple, in Rusk County, alleging the community violated state law when officials shifted from using voting tabulators to hand-counting paper ballots in last year’s April and August elections. Read Article