Elections officials in the four states holding presidential primaries next week say they have no plans to postpone voting amid widespread disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak. Instead, they are taking extraordinary steps to ensure that voters can cast ballots and keep polling places clean.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker issued an executive order on Thursday scheduling special elections to fill two vacant legislative seats, as Senate Republicans abandoned their attempt to pass a bill blocking the contests amid intense criticism that the GOP was trying to avoid adding to its string of losses.

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A state appeals court has denied Gov. Scott Walker's request to delay a court order calling on him to schedule special elections to fill two legislative vacancies in no uncertain terms.

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Gov. Scott Walker’s prediction regarding the vast sums spent in the recent gubernatorial elections can be summed up with: This, too, shall pass.

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It’s the kind of report that probably ends up in more recycling bins than reading piles.

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The nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin too often favors Democrats and needs to be reconstituted, perhaps with a more partisan model like what previously existed, incoming Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Monday.

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By now, Wisconsin residents are well aware what happens when elections loom: saturation television ads and robocalls at a frequency that constitutes harassment. The groundwork for these onslaughts is being laid, in fundraising letters to potential donors, typically conveying a sense of urgency and danger.

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Wisconsin Republicans scored a huge victory when a federal court approved nearly all of the GOP-drafted maps for legislative districts for the next 10 years.

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What strategy will Republicans adopt for the upcoming recall elections? Will they try to get involved in a Democratic primary, denounce labor leaders or defend their own legislative record?

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