President Barack Obama nominated a Madison attorney Thursday to fill a vacant federal judge position in the Western District of Wisconsin.

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Gov. Scott Walker's appointee to the board that oversees elections in Wisconsin told members of the state Senate Elections committee on Tuesday that impartiality on the panel is an "absolute necessity."

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Gov. Scott Walker wants to replace, without explanation, the former judge who led the nonpartisan elections board during Walker's recall in 2012, raising questions about his motives for the unusual move.

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Retired judge Tim Vocke has been selected to serve as chairman of the nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin.

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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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Judge David Deininger has been selected as chairman of the nonpartisan board that oversees elections in Wisconsin.

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