 He eventually purchased Twitter, now X, for $44 billion in October 2022. Internal financial documents show the company's value has dropped by more than 70 percent since then. Bobby Allen, NPR News. The Wisconsin Supreme Court is changing course and says it will allow officials to place ballot drop boxes around their communities in this fall's election. The court had ruled in 2022 such absentee ballot boxes could only be used in election offices and that no one other than the voter could return a ballot in person.