Earlier today, Governor Tony Evers vetoed a batch of six Republican-authored election bills. Legislative Republicans argued those bills were essential to preserve the integrity of future elections. Democrats and civil rights groups called them voter suppression. The package of six bills sought to — among other things — alter absentee voting procedures, change voting policies […]
How to Run a Successful Election
A recent poll from POLITICO found that 70 percent of Republicans surveyed don’t believe the 2020 election was free and fair, with distrust particularly in the results from swing states like Wisconsin. Election experts, though, celebrate the 2020 election as a great success and the most secure in U.S. history. Election administrators quickly adapted to […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Says There Was No Evidenc...
(Photo: andibreit on Pixabay) Wisconsin voters cast an unofficial 3,296,374 votes for president. That’s according to Meagan Wolfe, the administrator of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission. “That is the most ever in the state of Wisconsin, exceeding the previous record set in 2012.” Yesterday, the Associated Press called the race in Wisconsin for Joe Biden. […]
Federal appeals court upholds Wisconsin’s absentee ballot extens...
In their decision yesterday, a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court’s decision pushing the deadline for absentee ballots from Election Day, November 3rd, to November 9th. Under pre-existing state law, absentee ballots need to be in clerks’ hands by election day. Now, as long as they’re received […]
Postal service facing uphill battle in run-up to November election
The United States Postal Service, which has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing for a predicted record-breaking amount of mail-in ballots for the November election. And, in recent months, they’ve found themselves in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, as part of the president’s crusade against mail-in ballots. Earlier today, WORT Producer […]
Mistakes Lead to Thousands of Uncounted Ballots
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held one of its most chaotic elections ever. The coronavirus pandemic was peaking, state and local lockdown orders were in place. As a result, a whopping 60% of all voters in the state turned to absentee ballots as a safer alternative instead of going to the polls in person. With […]
