The conservative Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL) filed the lawsuit that led to the court's decision. It also ruled that voters must personally bring their completed ballots in-person to the clerk's office without any other person's help. The court effectively outlawed the drop boxes in a 4-3 conservative majority decision. "We felt like, rather than remove them, we wanted to transform them, and to use them as a space for public art, to perhaps spur dialogue, and maybe even to hold space for a future in which we might be able to make a better decision as a state to increase access to voting rather than limiting it," said Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway. In the wake of a controversial Wisconsin Supreme Court decision in early July that banned absentee ballot drop boxes, the city partnered with New York-based artist Jenny Holzer to post messages on its 14 boxes with information on how to vote and return an absentee ballot. Out of a job, the absentee ballot drop boxes in Madison, Wisconsin have gotten a makeover.
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