Photo by diegoparra on Pixabay. Today the Wisconsin state senate considered a slate of bills, from legalizing paddlewheel raffles, requiring the national anthem at state sports arenas, to a handful of election related legislation. Also on the docket were five police reform bills which, according to the Associated Press, are the legislature’s first passed bills […]
Trump Campaign Files Lawsuit Seeking to Overturn Wisconsin Election Re...
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, […]
Elections Commission Clashes During Recount Meeting
The clock is now ticking for a partial recount in Dane and Milwaukee counties. Last night, the state’s Elections Commission outlined a timeline and procedures for that recount. In a long and sometimes heated meeting, the bipartisan commission ultimately left issues of public health and the state of absentee ballots up in the air. The […]
Artist Tom Jones on a recent mural collab with Shephard Fairey
Acclaimed artist Shephard Fairey, the artist behind the iconic Hope campaign print and poster for Barack Obama, has just completed a voting-themed mural titled Voting Rights are Human Rights in downtown Milwaukee, on the side of the Colby Abbot Building. Fairey and his Obey Giant team partnered on the large mural with four Wisconsin artists. […]
City of Madison introducing secure absentee ballot boxes
Earlier this week, Milwaukee mayor Tom Barrett announced that the city would be installing more than a dozen drop boxes for absentee ballots. At a press briefing earlier today, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway said that Madison will be implementing a similar plan in the coming months. “We will be installing secure drop boxes to facilitate […]
As DNC enters Day Three, Trump counter-programming continues
The Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee was originally going to host around 50,000 attendants. According to American Public Media, the city spent ten million dollars to prepare for the event, which was initially predicted to infuse about 200 million dollars into the city’s economy. But, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, organizers announced in June that […]
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