Biden’s Gestapo, the Justice Department, has threatened legal action against the small northern Wisconsin towns of Thornapple and Lawrence, which removed their electronic voting machines and switched to manual vote tallying.
The Justice Department’s threat comes after city officials in Thornapple and Lawrence abandoned plans to use electronic voting systems due to concerns about reliability and the possibility of manipulation.
Many believe that manually counted votes would be a more transparent and reliable alternative, ensuring that every vote is recorded without the risk of technical error or tampering.
The main reason for the legal threats is said to be the failure of both towns to provide accessible voting facilities for people with disabilities in the April elections.
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A Rusk County town is violating the law by refusing to provide voting machines to voters with disabilities, according to a complaint filed with the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Despite warnings from the U.S. Department of Justice, the town allegedly conducted its August primary election with only paper ballots that were counted by hand.
of Complaints The lawsuit, filed by the Wisconsin Disability Rights Alliance, alleges that the Town of Thornapple violated the federal Help America Vote Act by failing to provide electronic voting machines to people with disabilities during the April and August primary elections.
“By discontinuing the use of electronic voting devices and instead using only paper ballots that are hand-marked and counted, Defendants have ceased to use an accessible voting system in a manner that provides individuals with disabilities the same access and opportunities for participation (including privacy and independence) as other voters,” the complaint states.
Disability Rights Wisconsin is asking the Wisconsin Elections Commission to order Thornapple to install accessible voting machines. Kit Kirschensteiner, director of legal and advocacy services for Disability Rights Wisconsin, told WPR that the goal is for all townspeople to be able to cast a secret ballot in the November presidential election. She said the voting machines were working fine in Thornapple until April.
“This is not a situation where the machines at the polling station didn’t work on the day,” Kerschensteiner said. “This is a situation where the polling station knowingly took away the rights of people with disabilities and knowingly chose to do so, and we find that unacceptable.”
The Department of Justice, under the direction of Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division, has already made clear its readiness to sue cities and their employees for alleged violations of federal law.
“This is to inform you that I have authorized the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of the United States pursuant to Section 301 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (“HAVA”), 52 USC § 21081, against the State of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin State Board of Elections, the Board Administrator, the Town of Thornapple, the Town of Lawrence, and the Town Clerks and Town Council Supervisors of Thornapple and Lawrence,” reads the letter sent to the Board of Elections. Vote beat.
“HAVA authorizes the Attorney General to bring actions in federal district court for declaratory and injunctive relief necessary to enforce the requirements of Title 3 of HAVA, 52 USC § 21111.”
But Thornapple election officials are adamantly opposed to the threat, saying they suspect the Justice Department is trying to use their small town as a precedent to impose its will on other municipalities.
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Suzanne Pineau, the town of Thornapple’s chief elections officer, declined to answer multiple questions but questioned whether the Department of Justice would go after the town.
“Because we’re a small town, are they going to use Thornapple as a precedent and look back and say, ‘See, we forced them,'” she asked.
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Pinau said Thornapple decided not to use voting machines in mid-2023 and chose not to use them in the Aug. 13 election “for the same reasons as in previous years,” without providing details.
In April, Pineau told Boat Beat that the decision not to make voting machines handicap accessible meant no one in town was able to vote.
“I wish I could talk. I wish I could,” Pinnow said Thursday. “I wish I could talk, because I think more people need to hear and understand and know why. But I can’t right now, because if there’s a lawsuit for any reason, I don’t want information to be out there about me spouting off about this and that and saying things I didn’t say.”
