RACINE, Wis. – A Racine County judge ruled that mobile voting isn’t allowed by state law. A van was used in 2022 Racine municipal elections. The state elections commission had dismissed an objection to the voting van, but Judge Eugene Gasiorkiewicz now has overturned the dismissal. The judge noted that state law is silent on mobile voting. It’s up to the Legislature to decide the issue, the judge said. The van was the first ever put on the streets in Wisconsin. It was funded partly by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Republicans derided the project as “Zuckerbucks.”
Out and about. Backers saw mobile voting as a way to encourage citizen participation. Republicans saw it as a scheme to tilt elections against them.