Wisconsin was a pivotal state in the 2020 election, and could be again in 2024. Absentee voting is optional in that state, at the voter’s choice with no reason required. For military personnel, travelers, persons working away from home (e.g., truck drivers and airline crews), the elderly and d[...]
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September 25th, 2024 - 1:41 pm § in Politics, Republicans
Wisconsin mayor drags his city into ballot drop box wars
April 3rd, 2023 - 5:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
High stakes in Wisconsin court election
Wisconsin’s supreme court is technically non-partisan, but in fact is a highly partisan court that makes very partisan rulings. And it could flip from conservative to liberal on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, which “could have wide-ranging consequences for the whole country,” Newsweek sai[...]
March 28th, 2023 - 3:31 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Wisconsin school officials won’t let first-graders sing about rainbows
A first-grade teacher in Wisconsin was ordered by school officials to remove a Dolly Parton song called “Rainbowland” from her students’ spring concert. Contacted by news media, the district superintendent pointed to a policy about controversial issues in classrooms. The teacher sa[...]
August 12th, 2022 - 4:15 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Wisconsin GOP legislative leader ends partisan “audit” of 2020 election by election denier
“Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker Robin Vos on Friday fired the conservative former state supreme court justice he hired last year to investigate fraud in the 2020 election, ending a controversial probe that drew bipartisan criticism,” CNN reported on Friday, August 12, 2022 (read stor[...]
Wisconsin Democrat kills mother and child in car crash
A Wisconsin state senator and party leader may face calls to resign, but not much more, after being involved in a fatal traffic accident. Janet Bewley (photo, left; bio here), 70, who represents rural counties bordering Lake Superior, pulled out of a parking lot into highway traffic while talking on[...]
June 15th, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
If GOP’s Arizona “audit” was a sham, its Wisconsin “audit” is a circus
If the Arizona GOP’s 2020 election “audit” was a sham, the Wisconsin GOP’s sham “audit” is a three-ring circus. Its star performer is Michael Gableman (bio here), a GOP political operative who served a single tumultuous term on Wisconsin’s supreme court. Gab[...]
Wisconsin’s fake electors sued for $2.4 million
“Two Wisconsin Democratic electors and a voter on Tuesday sued Republicans who attempted to cast electoral ballots for Donald Trump in 2020,” ABC News reported on Tuesday, May 17, 2022 (read story here). Lawyers for the plaintiffs, who are seeking $2.4 million from the 10 fake electors[...]
April 29th, 2022 - 11:11 pm § in Law and Courts, Politics
Wisconsin Republicans don’t let disabled people vote
Martha Chambers of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is a quadriplegic. A victim of a long-ago horseback riding accident, she has no use of her body from the neck down. She physically can’t deposit her ballot in a mailbox or ballot box; someone has to do that for it. That’s illegal in Wisconsin, tha[...]
March 5th, 2022 - 4:48 am § in Politics
Wisconsin GOP’s election “audit” is a debacle, too
“For months, far-right conspiracy theorists have not only argued that Donald Trump won Wisconsin in 2020 — even after a count, recount, and an audit proved otherwise — they also insisted that state officials could undo the certification of Wisconsin’s election results,” MSNBC repor[...]
December 9th, 2021 - 7:03 pm § in Politics
The Wisconsin GOP’s secret election conspiracy
The Wisconsin GOP apparently took a lesson from the miserable failure of Arizona Republicans’ sham election “audit” that cost $9 million and discredited them instead of the election. They’re conducting their efforts to discredit Wisconsin’s election process secretly beh[...]