Judge orders northern Wisconsin town to resume use of accessible voting machines

A federal judge has ordered a town in northern Wisconsin to return to using voting machines accessible to people with disabilities.

Thornapple and its leaders violated federal law "by failing to provide a voting system equipped for individuals with disabilities" during the April 2 and Aug. 13 elections this year, James D. Peterson, chief U.S. District judge for Wisconsin's Western District, wrote in an order.

Peterson's order granting preliminary injunction also barred Thornapple from enforcing its June 2023 decision to "stop the use of the electronic voting machine."

The ruling came less than a month after the U.S. Department of Justice sued Thornapple and another Rusk County town over the issue — saying it had reached an agreement with the Town of Lawrence, but not Thornapple.




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