Last week, Wisconsin’s Republican lawmakers proposed sweeping overhauls to how the state conducts its elections. The six bills would change requirements for indefinitely confined voters, institute stricter voter ID laws and bar election funding from private organizations. Advocacy groups and Wisconsin’s Democratic legislators swiftly condemned the bills, saying that they were thinly veiled attempts at […]
Meet the Candidates: Madison Common Council District 18
Today on the show, Tuesday host Carousel Bayrd continues her spring election coverage by interviewing all three Madison Common Council candidates for District 18: Rebecca Kemble (incumbent), Veronica Figueroa Velez, and Charles Myadze. Wisconsin is holding its 2021 spring primary election on Tuesday, February 16. The spring election will be held on Tuesday, April 6. […]
Trump Campaign Files for Recount in Dane and Milwaukee Counties
After sending $3 million by a wire transfer last night and dropping off a petition this morning to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, the Trump Campaign today has officially completed a request for a partial recount, managing to do so in a tight time window. The recount petition is only for Dane and Milwaukee counties, the […]
Madison in the Sixties – Elections
Madison in the Sixties – Elections November 8, 1960. 55,600 voters, an astonishing 88% of Madison’s registered voters go to the polls, giving a narrow local majority to Democratic candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy, who also carries Dane County. First-term US Rep Bob Kastenmeier (D-Watertown) is easily elected to a second term, as is Gov. […]
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Extension of Mail-In Absentee Ballot Due Dat...
As of 7:30 this morning, state election officials report that more than 1,771,000 Wisconsinites have already cast their ballots in next week’s election. About eighty percent of those ballots were cast through the mail, while about twenty percent were cast through in-person early voting. But sending absentee ballots through the mail takes time, and ballots […]
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 […]
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