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Michael Gableman: “Absentee voting is not a right, it is a privilege.”

Featuring: Michael Gableman, Republican | Former Justice, Wisconsin Supreme Court

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Published | Video Starts at 10:21

But absentee voting, absentee voting done for convenience, done for the people who may live part time in Florida or Arizona or have other things to do that expansion, the legislature tells us in the preamble to the statutes, Absentee voting is not a right, it is a privilege. And in order to exercise that right, that people have to follow a very specific series of rules and regulations, or the law is if those rules are violated on a ballot, that that ballot shall not be counted. (10:21–10:26)

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Asserts that absentee voting is considered a privilege, not a right, according to the legislature.

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