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One of two Wisconsin counties that conducted recounts of their presidential votes spent nearly $730,000 on the attempt.
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Read More »Trump pays $3 million for partial Wisconsin vote recount
President Donald Trump has paid $3 million for a partial recount in Wisconsin but has yet to file a petition stating which counties will be included, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said Wednesday.
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Read More »Biden narrowly wins Wisconsin; Trump to call for a recount
Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won battleground state Wisconsin on Wednesday, edging out President Donald Trump in a state that was crucial to the incumbent's victory four years ago.
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Read More »Wisconsin Democrats sweating out GOP supermajority push
Wisconsin Democrats waited anxiously on Wednesday to see if they had blocked a Republican attempt to build legislative supermajorities that would negate Gov. Tony Evers' veto powers and allow them to advance their agenda at will over the upcoming session.
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Read More »Presidency hinges on tight races in battleground states
By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and ALEXANDRA JAFFE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three ...
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Read More »Razor-thin margin separates Biden, Trump in Wisconsin race
President Donald Trump and Joe Biden were locked early Wednesday in a razor-thin race in Wisconsin as vote-counting stretched into the predawn hours and the nation's eyes turned to the same Midwestern battlegrounds that decided the election four years ago.
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Read More »ABA Legal Fact Check: A brief history of the Electoral College (Infographic)
A new poll from Marquette University Law School reports 82% of Americans surveyed believe the choice of the next U.S. Supreme Court justice is very or somewhat important to them.
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Read More »Early voting shattered, Wisconsin polls open amid pandemic
After shattering early voting records, Wisconsin voters had a final chance Tuesday to cast ballots in schools, libraries, churches and community buildings, even as coronavirus cases surged and political tensions were high in the battleground state.
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Read More »Appellate court halts Wisconsin ballot-counting extension
A federal appeals court on Sunday temporarily halted a six-day extension for counting absentee ballots in Wisconsin's presidential election, a momentary victory for Republicans and President Donald Trump in the key presidential battleground state.
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Read More »US judge blocks Postal Service changes that slowed mail
A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked controversial Postal Service changes that have slowed mail nationwide, calling them "a politically motivated attack on the efficiency of the Postal Service" before the November election.
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Read More »Wisconsin elections commission member advised Green Party
A Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission advised a Green Party representative about who to hire as an attorney after its presidential nominee was denied ballot access in the key battleground state, records obtained by The Associated Press show.
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Read More »Wisconsin hopes for smoother primary than April election
Wisconsin's second statewide election since the coronavirus pandemic began came with far more time to prepare than the first, and election officials were hoping for a correspondingly smoother result in Tuesday's primary.
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Read More »Republicans seek to stop Wisconsin election lawsuit
The Republican National Committee, the Wisconsin Republican Party and the GOP-controlled state Legislature are asking a federal judge to allow them to intervene in a sweeping lawsuit filed by Democratic-friendly groups seeking changes that would make it easier to vote in the November presidential election.
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Read More »Wisconsin officials mull November absentee voting changes
Wisconsin officials are working on new tracking technology for absentee ballots and considering a host of other changes to improve the state's vote-by-mail process ahead of the November presidential election, according to a new report.
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Read More »Wisconsin again? Swing state a hotbed of virus politics
By THOMAS BEAUMONT, SCOTT BAUER and SARA BURNETT Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin has been the battleground for political proxy wars for nearly a decade, the backdrop for bruising feuds over labor unions, executive power, redistricting and President ...
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Read More »Congressional election on today in Wisconsin
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A special Congressional election in a rural Wisconsin district President Donald Trump carried by 20 points is pitting a Trump-aligned state senator against a school board president hoping to become the ...
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Read More »Officials: 7 virus cases appear related to in-person voting
Health officials in Wisconsin said they have identified at least seven people who appear to have contracted the coronavirus from participating in the April 7 election, the first such cases following in-person voting that was held despite widespread concern about the public health risks.
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Read More »Legal counsel signals delay unlikely in Wisconsin US House election
Gov. Tony Evers' legal counsel signaled Thursday that the May 12 special election in northern Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District will likely go on as scheduled, a week after he said the governor was eyeing delaying it due to the coronavirus outbreak.
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Read More »Spencer elected as Milwaukee city attorney
Voters elected Tearman Spencer as Milwaukee’s new city attorney, ending Grant Langley’s nearly four decades in the role.
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Read More »Biden defeats Sanders as Wisconsin releases election results
Joe Biden emerged victorious Monday in Wisconsin's Democratic presidential primary, a turbulent election far more significant for the struggle over whether it should have been held at all last week amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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Read More »Liberal Karofsky wins Wisconsin Supreme Court seat (UPDATE)
The political leanings of Wisconsin's Supreme Court could change Monday night with the expected release of results from last week's election held during the coronavirus pandemic, an acrimonious race that generated record spending from outside liberal and conservative groups.
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Read More »Milwaukee election officials’ Zoom meeting briefly hacked
An unidentified user briefly hacked into the Milwaukee Election Commission’s Zoom meeting on Sunday and took over the screen to share graphic images, including vulgar words and pornography.
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Read More »In Wisconsin, missing absentees spur questions and anger
The U.S. Postal Service and election officials searched for answers Thursday about why an untold number of absentee ballots never made it to voters in Wisconsin who didn't want to risk contracting the coronavirus by voting at the polls in the state's presidential primary.
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Read More »US Supreme Court split on scope in Wisconsin absentee ballot opinion
A decision from the U.S. Supreme Court about Wisconsin's April 7 election saw the justices split on the scope of the issue in question: whether absentee ballots could be postmarked after election day.
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Read More »Wisconsin voters forced to choose between health, democracy
If Wisconsin was a test case for voting in the age of the coronavirus, it did not go well for many voters. Thousands were forced to congregate for hours in long lines on Tuesday with no protective gear. Thousands more stayed home, unwilling to risk their health and unable to be counted because requested absentee ballots never arrived.
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Read More »Pandemic politics: Wisconsin voting underway despite virus
Voters lined up to cast ballots across Wisconsin on Tuesday, ignoring a stay-at-home order in the midst of a pandemic to participate in the state's presidential primary election.
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Read More »GOP: Clerks can’t say everyone is confined to avoid photo ID
The Wisconsin Legislature's top Republicans told Democratic county clerks on Friday to stop telling people they can mark themselves as indefinitely confined to get around photo ID requirements for absentee ballots, saying the governor's stay-at-home order isn't a lockdown.
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Read More »Voting groups, unions sue to force in-person voting delay
A coalition of voting rights groups and labor unions have filed a federal lawsuit seeking to postpone in-person voting for Wisconsin's spring election in light of the coronavirus crisis.
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Read More »Races heat up for Abrahamson’s seat, 3 state court judgeships
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Read More »Walker calls special elections, GOP drops bill to block them (UPDATE)
Wisconsin lawmakers were scheduled to take public comments on Wednesday on a bill that would eliminate requirements that the governor promptly call special elections to fill legislative vacancies.
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