A Dane County judge recently heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by Disability Rights Wisconsin and the League of Women Voters, which seeks to allow voters with print disabilities to receive and fill out absentee ballots electronically to ensure their right to a secret and independent ballot. Plaintiffs argue that requiring paper ballots forces roughly 110,000 eligible disabled voters in the state to rely on others for assistance or face dangerous travel conditions to vote in person. Conversely, attorneys for the state contend that existing accommodations—such as voting in person on electronic machines or using an assistant at home—are sufficient, and argue that implementing an internet-based system would create undue financial, administrative, and cyber-security burdens on Wisconsin's paper-based election system.

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