Rick Esenberg, president and general counsel of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, said he was initially "a bit angry" after seeing a political cartoon depicting him as an executioner with several nooses. The Cap Times, a Madison newspaper, published the cartoon this week in response to WILL's lawsuit against the Wisconsin Elections Committee.

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A Wisconsin appeals court on Tuesday put on hold an order calling for the immediate removal of as many as 209,000 names from the state's voter-registration rolls, handing Democrats who had fought the decision a victory in the battleground state.

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Wisconsin officials are considering spending more than a quarter of a million dollars on a public-relations push to reassure voters that elections in the state are secure after nearly three-quarters of respondents to a survey this fall said they were worried about threats.

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Wisconsin election officials are scheduled to meet Monday to consider what to do about the more than 200,000 voters that a judge has ruled should be purged from voter rolls in the key swing state.

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Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Daniel Kelly has decided he won't play any role in deciding a lawsuit demanding state election officials immediately purge more than 200,000 voter registrations.

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The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Tuesday appealed a judge's order to immediately purge voter registrations of more than 200,000 people in this narrowly divided swing state, which is central to President Donald Trump's re-election hopes.

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A Wisconsin judge ordered last week that the registration of as many as 234,000 voters be tossed out because they may have moved, a victory for conservatives that could make it more difficult for people to vote next year in the key swing state.

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More than a quarter-million voters in Wisconsin who have recently moved could be made ineligible to vote before next year's presidential primary election if a complaint filed Wednesday by a conservative law firm is successful.

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Wisconsin elections officials scaled back a plan on Tuesday to buy scores of new loaner computers for local clerks who are using outdated systems that are vulnerable to cyberattacks, saying the proposal is too expensive.

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission has agreed to allow local election clerks to reinstate voter registration for voters who were wrongly cut from the rolls last year.

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A security official for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says no new threats against election security in Wisconsin have been detected to date ahead of the November midterm election.

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Absentee voting for Wisconsin's Aug. 14 primary has begun, but the process for casting a ballot early varies across the state.

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Two Democratic gubernatorial candidates and a Republican U.S. Senate candidate have turned in enough valid nomination signatures to get their names on the fall ballot, state elections official said on Monday.

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Current plans for bolstering election security in Wisconsin call for training nearly 2,000 local clerks on how to protect passwords and thwart computer hacking.

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The Wisconsin Elections Commission picked a new administrator on Friday after incumbent Michael Haas stepped aside following a bitter squabble with Senate Republicans.

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