The state of Wisconsin has settled a federal lawsuit brought by Republican Mitt Romney’s campaign seeking more time for military and overseas voters in Wisconsin to return ballots that were sent past a federal deadline.
Although it appears Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser is about to win the biggest legal battle of his career, he should be worried, even embarrassed, about the cost.
Wisconsin’s elections chief says a state Supreme Court ruling on voter ID before Nov. 6 wouldn’t provide enough time to get ready for the change at the polls.
Gerald Nichol has been re-appointed to the Wisconsin state elections board.
Robert Kovach, chief of staff for state Sen. Frank Lasee, falls silent to consider the consequences of confusing wording in a major new landlord-tenant law.
Local governments can ban concealed weapons at all manner of polling sites, from city halls to assisted living facilities, state election officials have concluded.
Gov. Scott Walker has re-appointed a former judge to the board that oversees state elections and ethics compliance.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Monday unanimously dismissed a case challenging campaign rules that require financial disclosure from groups running issue ads for or against candidates.
Wisconsin’s board of elections says it will meet soon to discuss whether to appeal a judge’s ruling to stop the state’s new voter identification law.
A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday granted a temporary injunction to groups trying to stop the state’s controversial new voter identification law.
The voting rights of Milwaukee’s Latino community would be “significantly diminished” under the redrawn voter maps that the Republican-led Legislature passed last year, an expert witness testified Thursday.
A Washington, D.C.-based group is the latest to file a federal lawsuit against Wisconsin’s new voter identification law.
Federal judges on Tuesday postponed a trial over the state’s latest election maps, telling lawyers for both sides to spend the day determining whether lawmakers would consider drawing new maps.
When Florence Hessing tried to get a state-issued photo identification card to comply with Wisconsin’s new voter ID law, the 95-year-old was told she needed her birth certificate.
Democrats got a victory Friday when the Wisconsin Court of Appeals overturned a judge’s order for state election officials to be more aggressive in ferreting out fake or duplicate signatures on recall petitions.
A Madison judge has granted state election officials an additional 30 days to verify nearly 2 million signatures on recall petitions against Gov. Scott Walker and five other Republicans.
A Wisconsin judge has delayed a decision on whether to let a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s new voter identification law to proceed.
Judge David Deininger has been selected as chairman of the nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin.
Another ethics complaint has been filed against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman, claiming free services he received from a law firm violated state law.
State election officials must “take affirmative steps” to remove fake or duplicate names from recall petitions, a judge ruled Thursday, handing a victory to Republican officials who felt the Government Accountability Board wasn’t planning to be aggressive enough in vetting signatures.
A Waukesha County judge is preparing to hear arguments in a lawsuit that will determine how the state elections board handles petition signatures.
Groups working to recall Republican officials have asked an appeals court to block an order denying them permission to join a lawsuit over how the state should verify petition signatures.
Recall groups targeting several Republican officials won’t be allowed to intervene in a lawsuit that will determine how the state elections board handles petition signatures, a Waukesha County judge ruled Thursday.
Just when you thought it was safe, more disappointing news came out this month about our state Supreme Court.
Waukesha attorney Jennifer Dorow is the new Branch 2 Judge in the Waukesha County Circuit Court.
Madison (AP) – A government watchdog group is requesting another investigation into Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman for accepting free legal services from a law firm with cases before the high court.
Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign and the Wisconsin Republican Party have filed a lawsuit that says the state elections board’s process for reviewing petitions on recall petitions is unconstitutional.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, claiming Wisconsin’s new voter identification law imposes a severe burden on the right to vote — the second lawsuit filed in the last two months.
Changes in procedure made after the Waukesha County clerk failed to report thousands of votes in this spring’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election were set to be approved by the state board that oversees elections.
A federal appeals court has struck down a Wisconsin law limiting how much any one person can donate to independent political action groups.
