A Wisconsin judge refused on Tuesday to order local election workers to conduct the state's upcoming presidential recount completely by hand, finding that nothing suggests the state's electronic tabulating machines have been hacked.
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Read More »Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein asked a judge Monday to force a hand recount of nearly 3 million ballots cast in Wisconsin after the state Elections Commission rejected her call to do that.
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Read More »Turnout for the presidential election in Wisconsin appears to be a 20-year low.
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The culmination of a tense political season ends Tuesday at the ballot box. So, it might be tempting to snap a selfie photo with your ballot after you're done voting.
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Read More »Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel says he plans to once again send what he's calling "election integrity teams" around the state on Election Day.
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Read More »Wisconsin election officials predicted a big turnout in Tuesday's primary — and then voters blew their number away.
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The three Democrats battling to become attorney general grappled with questions Tuesday about legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin, with one saying it's too soon, another saying medicinal use might make sense and the third saying it's not his call.
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Read More »The four candidates for Wisconsin attorney general praised the state Department of Justice for its strides in solving cold cases, and all four pledged to keep up the pressure on tackling unsolved crimes.
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Ballots for this year’s State Bar elections are set to be mailed by Friday.
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As a candidate for state attorney general, Dane County's district attorney is getting his turn to take questions during a Milwaukee Press Club luncheon.
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Serving as president of the State Bar of Wisconsin is like riding a Ferris wheel that goes around only once.
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Attorneys Ralph Cagle and Kevin Palmersheim are candidates for president-elect in the upcoming Wisconsin State Bar Board of Governors election.
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Milwaukee County Court Commissioner Laura Gramling Perez easily bested her opponent Tuesday to become the new judge in Branch 32.
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Forty-four judges’ seats are up for election Tuesday in Wisconsin.
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Read More »Wisconsin attorney general hopeful Susan Happ has secured a key endorsement from an influential Democratic group.
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Only one judge’s race in Milwaukee County will be contested during this spring’s election.
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Read More »Even though independent groups spent $1.2 million on the spring’s Supreme Court election, the contest was one of the cheapest in recent years.
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Read More »The two candidates for last spring's Wisconsin Supreme Court election raised slightly more than $1 million through their campaigns.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Assembly's elections committee has approved a bill that would increase campaign contribution limits and allow voters to register online.
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Spending on television advertising in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race won by Justice Pat Roggensack topped $1 million.
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New campaign finance reports show Justice Pat Roggensack has spent $351,000 on her re-election campaign in six weeks.
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Nearly two years after Justice David Prosser allegedly put his hands around the throat of another Wisconsin justice, the incident continues to dominate debate about the future of the state’s highest court.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court candidates Pat Roggensack and Ed Fallone are scheduled to meet for a debate a little over a week before the April 2 election.
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Ed Fallone goes after incumbent Justice Pat Roggensack in his first ad in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race released Tuesday, just two weeks before the April 2 election.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack said Wednesday her "heart aches" over the approach taken by her opponent Ed Fallone in the race for the state's highest court.
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Turns out Vince Megna is himself churning out defective products. Somebody call a lawyer.
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Lawyers can learn something from a former journalist turned political adviser.
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Read More »The National Archives maintains a website on the U.S. Electoral College. The page is divided into several topics, including FAQs, “What is an Electoral College,” resources for state officials, and a general resource page.
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Read More »Legions of lawyers are ready to enter the fray in case Election Day turns on a legal challenge. One nightmare scenario would be for the results in a battleground state like Wisconsin or Ohio to be too close to call, with thousands of absentee or provisional ballots yet to be counted.
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Read More »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.
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