Every day feels like a raw wound for Omari Barksdale.
Read More »Wisconsin voters line up to cast early in-person ballots
Voters across Wisconsin lined up Tuesday to cast their ballots on the first day of early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state.
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Read More »About 50 Wisconsin municipalities need poll workers (UPDATE)
Only 13 mostly small Wisconsin communities are reporting poll worker shortages less than three weeks before the November election, despite surging cases of the coronavirus in the key battleground state.
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Read More »Milwaukee scraps early voting plans at Fiserv, Miller Park
Election officials said Tuesday that they had scrapped their plans to use the Milwaukee Bucks and Brewers' stadiums as early voting sites in the presidential battleground state of Wisconsin, citing fear that the ballots could be legally challenged.
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Read More »GOP asks full appeals court to hear Wisconsin absentee case
Wisconsin Republicans want the full 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to hear their appeal of a ruling by a three-judge panel of the court that allowed absentee ballots to be counted for six days after Election Day.
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Read More »Wisconsin election head: ‘Don’t wait’ on mailing ballots
In the face of warnings about slow mail delivery and record-high requests for absentee ballots, the head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday urged voters not to wait to return their ballot for the Aug. 11 statewide primary.
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Read More »Group wants to prevent ballot harvesting in Wisconsin
A conservative law firm asked the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Monday to outlaw the process by which outside groups, typically partisan, help to send or return large numbers of absentee ballots.
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Read More »52 who worked or voted in Wisconsin election have COVID-19
There are no plans to postpone or otherwise alter a special congressional election in Wisconsin that is less than two weeks away, even though more than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during the state's presidential primary this month have tested positive for COVID-19.
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Read More »Wisconsin absentee voters to receive 2 spring ballots
Election officials in Wisconsin plan to send absentee voters two ballots for the spring election, setting up the possibility of voter confusion.
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Read More »Evers signs order setting up new redistricting commission (UPDATE)
Gov. Tony Evers signed an executive order Monday setting up what he promised would be a nonpartisan commission to draw new legislative maps next year for the Legislature to consider, a step Republicans have rejected as a sham.
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