‘We are fed up’: Ballot drop boxes are dividing neighbors in Wisconsin | CNN Politics

In Wisconsin , ballot drop boxes are a political flashpoint in the crucial battleground state of Wisconsin .

Drop boxes were legal in 2020 , then mostly banned in 2022 , and now are legal once again after liberals took control of the state Supreme Court .

The most dramatic fight over drop boxes this election season has been in Wausau , a city of about 40,000 people that’s a blue dot in a red county .

Diny proposed spending $ 3,000 on additional security for the drop box, but the council did not vote on his proposal.

Wisconsin voters are facing a patchwork of local policies on ballot drop boxes.

Some cities that used drop boxes in 2020 , including Kenosha , the state’s fourth -largest, have decided not to use them this election.

In Dodge County , a county of about 90,000 people that voted heavily for Trump , the elected sheriff urged local clerks not to using drop boxes this year .

Some conservative activists say they are planning efforts to do just that kind of surveillance.

The conservative group True the Vote sent staff across Wisconsin in recent weeks to collect “exact drop box locations” in advance of setting up video livestreams of the boxes, the group’s director said.