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 […]
Wisconsin Elections Commission Delays Vote on Mailing Absentee Applica...
Photo by Element5 Digital on Unsplash. In May, the Wisconsin Elections Commission delayed a vote on whether or not to send absentee ballot applications to 2.7 million registered voters across Wisconsin. Yesterday, the commission decided to again delay a vote needed to do that. The planned mailing includes an absentee ballot application form as […]
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,” […]
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