On Tuesdays, the Daily Cardinal — one of UW-Madison’s student newspapers — shares the latest in campus news. This week, producer Hope Karnopp talks with campus news writer Alison Stecker about the increase in UW-Madison’s student voter turnout and how the BadgersVote initiative has reached younger voters. We also discuss the raising of the Ho-Chunk […]
Wisconsin’s Election Investigation is a Sham
Earlier this month, a national watchdog group filed a lawsuit against Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and the Wisconsin Assembly for failing to turn over documents related to the ongoing review of last year’s presidential election. And now, Speaker Vos is facing a second lawsuit to turn over his documents. First up today, we talk with […]
State Democrats Announce Campaign Finance Reform Package
This morning, state legislators and advocates announced a new “Campaign Integrity package.” The package includes seven bills which aim to reduce the influence of campaign donors and make campaign finance more transparent. State Senator Chris Larson, a Democrat from Milwaukee, says that money has played an increasing role in Wisconsin’s legislative elections in the past […]
In Wisconsin, many District Attorney seats go uncontested
In 2020, only about ten percent of Wisconsin’s District Attorneys faced a challenger in an election. The lack of competition means less turnover, and accountability, in one of the most important positions in local politics. For more, our Producer Jonah Chester spoke with Will Kenneally, a reporter with PBS Wisconsin. Kenneally just authored a piece […]
Wall street contributed $2.9B to 2020 elections
Wall Street spent at least $2.9 billion on the 2020 elections, equating to $4 million a day, and a billion dollars more than the 2016 elections. Carter Dougherty, Communications Director of Americans for Financial Reform — a 200-group coalition of consumer advocates, faith groups, labor unions — talks about the money… where it came from […]
Proposed overhauls to Wisconsin’s elections part of national tre...
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 […]
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