Wisconsin voters cast more than double the amount of absentee ballots for this election compared with 2016. Despite that number, and the ever-present threat of COVID-19, some Madisonians still made it to the polls today to vote in person. Yesterday, WORT producer Jonah Chester and reporter Martin Rakacolli visited ten polling places throughout the greater […]
Madison Voters Ask Court to Declare Democracy in the Park Legal
Yesterday, several Madison voters filed a lawsuit asking the court to declare the more than 10,000 absentee ballots returned during last weekend’s Democracy in the Park event legally collected. The lawsuit comes after two prominent Republican lawmakers filed a cease-and-desist letter against Democracy in the Park, claiming without evidence that the event was “illegal” and […]
Appellate court puts temporary hold on Wisconsin absentee ballot exten...
A federal court of appeals put on hold yesterday a previous decision to extend the number of days absentee ballots can be requested, mailed-in, and counted in Wisconsin. The original ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge William Conley last Monday, would allow absentee ballots received up to six days after Election Day to be counted. […]
The Fight for Vote By Mail
On May 4, we spoke with University of Memphis law professor Steven Mulroy about the history and background of voting-by-mail systems. Today, we at the Buzz thought we’d talk with some of the activists working to make voting by mail universal. Vote 2020 By Mail is a nonpartisan organization lobbying Congress to require that all […]
Vote by Mail Gains Ground
On April 7, 2020, Wisconsin held its spring elections for State Supreme Court, local government offices and the U.S. Presidential Preference Primary. Under the threat of coronavirus contagion, thousands of Wisconsinites left their homes and waited in long lines with their fellow voters, by necessity often closer than six feet apart. A shortage of poll […]
A Difficult Choice: Democracy or Health
Kelli Larson works for the State of Wisconsin as a tax analyst. Yesterday, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, Larson served as a poll worker for the first time. According to the Madison Clerk’s Office, the city had about 1,400 workers show up yesterday, while more than 1,700 decided not to work due to […]
