Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday vetoed bills that would have narrowed the criteria for mail-in voting and bolstered security surrounding absentee ballots. Evers, a Democrat, cast the six measures as overly restrictive and said he was vetoing them “to protect the right of every eligible person to vote.” “At the end of the day, these bills add unnecessary and damaging hurdles for Wisconsinites to participate in our democracy, from restricting how an absentee ballot can be returned and by who to limiting municipalities ability to organize community events to help voters return ballots,” he added at a press conference in Madison. Evers vetoed Wisconsin Assembly Bill 173 and Wisconsin Senate Bills 203, 204, 205, 212, and 292. The bills would have curtailed how much counties could have accepted from private groups to run elections, required county clerks to return absentee ballots with missing information to voters, mandated nearly all …