3-2-22 fdl county clerk has mixed reaction to gop election bills

The Fond du Lac County Clerk has mixed reaction to a series of election bills approved  with only GOP support.   The bills would address a host of grievances that Republicans have raised about the 2020 presidential election, and are expected to be vetoed by Democratic governor Tony Evers.   Fond du Lac County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says she does support a measure that says clerks could no longer fill in missing information on absentee ballot envelopes.  “If people want to get that absentee ballot they need to follow the instructions,”  Freiberg told WFDL news.  Freiberg says she also supports a bill that would allow municipalities with central count locations to begin processing absentee ballots the day before an election.  “I have been working on that bill for years,”  Freiberg said.  “That certainly will take care of the theory that there was a big ballot drop in the middle of the night.”   Former president Trump falsely claimed there was a “vote dump” in places like Milwaukee as central count locations finished their tallies into the early morning the day after the election.   Another bill would add more training requirements for municipal clerks and require the Elections Commission to promulgate rules for training clerks on testing voting machines.  Freiberg questions a bill which would require applications for absentee ballots to be separate from the envelope voters place them in to return to their clerks.   In the end Freiberg says it’s just more paperwork.