Voting rights and voter access are major issues across the U.S. right now, with names being removed from the voter rolls, poll locations reduced due to the pandemic, and a heated partisan debate over vote-by-mail. Today, Esty spends the hour with Greg Palast to discuss voter access in 2020 through the lens of his new […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission delays vote on new absentee ballot meas...
Yesterday, state election officials punted a vote on whether to mail absentee ballot applications to millions of Wisconsin voters, among a number of proposals to plan for the primary in August and the fall election in November. The proposal would spend $2.1 million of federal CARES aid to mail absentee ballot applications to registered voters […]
Ensuring Safe (and fair) elections
How has voting changed? Elizabeth Howard, Counsel for The Brennan Center for Justice has studied that question in her “Ensuring Safe Elections Report”. Five times more people in Wisconsin voted by absentee ballot than the 2016 primary — which results in much additional cost the local and state government — funding which is not supported […]
Some Madisonians Risk Health to Vote, Others Won’t Be Counted
Ellie Bruecker is a doctoral student at UW-Madison who lives on the city’s east side. She is also what she describes as an “attempted voter.” Like many Wisconsinites who’ve been practicing social distancing in order to slow the spread of COVID-19, Bruecker requested an absentee ballot to participate in today’s presidential primary. Last week, federal Judge […]
