Honig v. WEC

Law Forward filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court May 6, 2026 on behalf of two Madison voters whose legally cast absentee ballots were counted on Election Day and then ordered thrown out by the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) weeks later.

The plaintiffs are among 23 Madison voters whose votes WEC ordered excluded from the spring election results on April 30, after determining that the Madison City Clerk’s Office delivered their ballots to their respective polling places minutes after polls closed on April 7. 

The voters themselves did everything right: they requested, completed, and returned their ballots well before the election – and they were properly counted by city and county election officials. The lawsuit details that the late delivery was the clerk’s error, not theirs, and that they should not be disenfranchised because of it.