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.
New rules simplifying and speeding up the process for union organizing elections went into effect April 30.
Two Milwaukee voting districts were revised Wednesday in favor of Democrats and an immigrant-rights group, concluding a federal lawsuit over the constitutionality of the state’s newest election maps.
Earlier this month, Google announced that it is adding an “Elections” section to their News homepage. It is located on the left hand side of the main Google news page and selecting it will narrow your news stories to just those dealing with the election.
Of the 12 contested circuit court elections this year in Wisconsin, eight will feature challenges to incumbent judges.
Several months after first proposing sweeping changes to streamline the union representation election process in June – the so-called “quickie election” rules – the National Labor Relations Board has approved a more modest, scaled back set of reforms.
Two state senators introduced legislation Thursday that would eliminate the election of state Supreme Court justices and replace that system with an appointment process based on merit.
Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson recently indicated in a memo to her colleagues that she wants her Wisconsin Supreme Court to be more transparent.
After an exhaustive and unsuccessful attempt to unseat a justice on the state Supreme Court, attorney JoAnne Kloppenburg is going to make a run at the appellate court bench.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A couple of veteran state senators think the time has come to end Supreme Court elections. Republican Sen. Dave Schultz of Richland Center and Democratic Sen. Tim Cullen of Janesville are co-sponsoring legislation that would replace the elections with a merit-based selection program. The move would require a constitutional amendment, which [...]
Waukesha – A conservative-leaning Wisconsin county on Thursday corrected its count and gave an unofficial 7,500-vote lead to the incumbent in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s divisive union rights law.
Wisconsin will feature 10 contested judicial elections this year, including a four-candidate race for incumbent Justice David T. Prosser’s seat on the state Supreme Court.
