Photo by Connor Betts on Unsplash. The lawsuit from Trump’s legal team asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out hundreds of thousands of votes in Milwaukee and Dane County. It aims to garner Wisconsin’s ten electoral votes for President Trump, in a state president-elect Joe Biden won by more than 20,000 votes. The lawsuit, […]
Dane, Milwaukee recounts draw to a close
The ten-day vote recount effort, which involved hundreds of processors and cost the Trump campaign an estimated $740,000, shifted the results of Dane County’s election by 58 net votes, up from 45 reported yesterday. According to Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, approximately 150 ballots were dismissed due to issues with voter or witness signatures. He […]
Elections Commission Upholds Barring of Election Deputies from Nursing...
Back in March, the Wisconsin Elections Commission barred election deputies from entering nursing homes to help residents cast absentee ballots, citing concerns of spreading Covid-19 to the elderly and disabled. That decision will carry through to the November election. During a meeting of the bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission yesterday, Republican Commissioner Dean Knudson stood by […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission Votes to Mail Absentee Ballot Applicati...
Photo from Element5 Digital on Unsplash. Yesterday the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted unanimously to send absentee ballot applications out to 2.7 million registered voters across Wisconsin. The mailing would not include the over half a million registered voters who already request absentee ballots. Nor would it include more than 150,000 on the “movers list,” […]
State Commission Deadlocked on Elections Motion
The Wisconsin Elections Commission is undecided about whether or not next week’s presidential primary should take place as scheduled. Earlier today, the Commission failed to pass a proposal from Commissioner Chair Dean Knudson that would have had the Commission tell a federal court it doesn’t think the election should be moved. Three Commissioners appointed by […]
The Rise of Anti-Semitism in Wisconsin, the U.S., and Globally
In the wake of recent national and local events such as the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting and the Baraboo Nazi salute incident, we spend the hour looking at the rise of anti-Semitism in Wisconsin, the U.S., and across the globe. Our guests are Jeff Spitzer-Resnick, Jonathan Judaken, and Ann Jacobs. Jeff Spitzer-Resnick is a Madison-based civil rights attorney. […]
