Anonymous ID: 173a9f Jan. 24, 2022, 3:46 p.m. No.15452531   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2664

Wisconsin Appeals Court Stays Judge’s Ruling Banning Election Drop Boxes — Wisconsin Election Commission Abruptly Cancels Emergency Meeting

 

Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren issued a summary judgment decision earlier this month on January 13th banning ballot dropboxes in the state.

 

Judge Bohren also ruled ballot harvesting was illegal in the state.

 

The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) issued memos to Wisconsin clerks in March and August of 2020 encouraging their use, stating that absentee ballots do not need to be mailed by the voter or delivered by the voter, in person, to the municipal clerk, but instead could be dropped into a drop box. According to WEC, ballot drop boxes can be unstaffed, temporary, or permanent.

 

This advice was contrary to state law.

 

Joe Biden won the state after a stunning drop of Biden only ballots in the middle of the night following the election.

 

On Monday a state appeals court stayed Judge Bohren’s restrictions on the use of absentee ballot drop boxes.

 

FOX6 reported — The ruling meant election officials couldn’t place drop boxes anywhere but in clerks’ offices for the Feb. 15 spring primary elections, nullifying Democrats’ efforts to place the boxes in as many locations as possible to make voting more convenient and increase turnout.

 

Earlier today the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) planned an emergency session this evening. But following the court ruling and President Trump’s tweet on the attempts to reestablish dropboxes in the state the WEC canceled their meeting tonight.

 

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/breaking-big-wisconsin-appeals-court-stays-judges-ruling-banning-election-drop-boxes-wisconsin-election-commission-abruptly-cancels-emergency-meeting/

Anonymous ID: 173a9f Jan. 24, 2022, 3:47 p.m. No.15452545   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>2652 >>2664

The Emergency Must Be Ended, Now

 

The time has come to terminate the pandemic state of emergency. It’s time to end the controls, the closures, the restrictions, the plexiglass, the stickers, the exhortations, the panic-mongering, the distancing announcements, the ubiquitous commercials, the forced masking, the vaccine mandates.

 

We don’t mean that the virus is gone—Omicron is still spreading wildly, and the virus may circulate forever. But with a normal focus on protecting the vulnerable, we can treat the virus as a medical rather than a social matter and manage it in ordinary ways. A declared emergency needs continuous justification, and that’s now lacking.

 

Over the last six weeks in the United States, the Delta variant strain—the most recent aggressive version of the infection—has according to the CDC been declining in both the proportion of infections (60 percent on Dec. 18 to 0.5 percent on Jan. 15) and the number of daily infected people (95,000 to 2,100). During the next two weeks, Delta will decline to the point that it essentially disappears like the strains before it.

 

Omicron is mild enough that most people, even many high-risk people, can adequately cope with the infection. Omicron infection is no more severe than seasonal flu, and generally less so. A large portion of the vulnerable population in the developed world is already vaccinated and protected against severe disease. We have learned much about the utility of inexpensive supplements like Vitamin D to reduce disease risk, and there’s a host of good therapeutics available to prevent hospitalization and death should a vulnerable patient become infected. And for younger people, the risk of severe disease—already low before Omicron—is minuscule.

 

Even in places with strict lockdown measures, there are hundreds of thousands of newly registered Omicron cases daily and countless unregistered positives from home testing. Measures like mandatory masking and distancing have had negligible or at most small effects on transmission. Large-scale population quarantines only delay the inevitable. Vaccination and boosters have not halted Omicron disease spread; heavily vaccinated nations like Israel and Australia have more daily cases per capita than any place on earth at the moment. This wave will run its course despite all of the emergency measures.

 

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