Voting

Voting An absentee ballot for the upcoming presidential election. (Photo by Pat Kreitlow)
Voting WI Law Says You Decide If You Qualify for Absentee Ballots. The GOP Wants to Decide for You.

Evers: Should we expect more people to stay safe and vote from home? “Hell, yes!”

Christina Lieffring Christina Lieffring December 29, 2020 10:46 am CST
Voting Stewart Karge, an attorney for the Trump campaign, raises procedural objections Friday morning to the Milwaukee County Board of Canvassers during the county's recount. (Photo by Jonathon Sadowski)
Voting WI Recount Critics Say Trump Is Trying to Litigate Himself Into a Second Term

Since Friday’s start of the recount, Trump’s legal team has filed a litany of objections, laying the groundwork to challenge potentially hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of ballots in court.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski November 23, 2020 4:31 pm CST
Voting The League of Women Voters of Milwaukee County’s Comité por el Voto Latino/Latinx Voter Outreach Committee promotes its "Your Vote is Your Voice" campaign. (Photo provided by the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin)
Voting League of Women Voters Changed Methods in 2020. The Result Was Record Turnout in Wisconsin.

Women associated with various League of Women Voters locations across the state describe what it takes to boost civic participation.

Jessica VanEgeren Jessica VanEgeren November 18, 2020 11:08 am CST
Voting Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School Poll, speaks in a Wednesday virtual luncheon hosted by the Milwaukee Milwaukee Press Club. Franklin gave a postmortem of polling errors in Wisconsin for the 2020 presidential election and talked about why virtually every poll seems to miss a significant segment of Donald Trump's supporters. (Screenshot)
Voting Why Were Polls So Wrong? One Pollster Thinks the Answer Lies With Trump.

Wisconsin’s most prominent pollster gives his theories on why presidential election polls were so wrong in 2016 and 2020.

Jonathon Sadowski Jonathon Sadowski November 11, 2020 4:40 pm CST
Elections Voters cast their ballots last November at the Zwingli United Church of Christ in the Dane County community of Paoli. (Photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images)
Elections For Wisconsin Voters, This Election Was a Clear Choice… for Their Candidate

No “both parties are the same” false equivalency this time. Ballots were cast with fervor for Biden or Trump.

UpNorthNews Staff November 3, 2020 8:17 pm CST

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A nurse fills a syringe with a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine made by Johnson & Johnson-owned Janssen Pharmaceuticals. (Photo by Jon Cherry/Getty Images) Coronavirus Don’t Be Alarmed By Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause, Wisconsin Health Officials Say
An archival image of the Plainfield Tunnel Channel Lakes in Waushara County, which have experienced a reduction in water levels due to groundwater withdrawals for irrigated agriculture. (Photo credit: Wisconsin DNR) Natural Resources Clean Water at Stake as WI Supreme Court Hears Appeals to Take GOP Restrictions Off the DNR
Left: A sewer line under construction along St. Paul Avenue in Milwaukee in 1920. Right: Victor Berger, co-founder of the Socialist Party of America, editor of the Milwaukee Leader, and the first Socialist elected to Congress. Lower: Construction of a Milwaukee sewer line in 1932. (Photos courtesy: Wisconsin Historical Society and Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District. Graphic by Morgaine Ford-Workman.) Infrastructure Infrastructure Is Good Politics—Just Ask Milwaukee’s Sewer Socialists of 1904
The state Capitol in Madison is reflected off the windows of an office building across the street. (Photo by Julian Emerson) Politics Not Allowed: Nonpartisan Analysis Finds a Flaw in GOP Plans for Wisconsin Stimulus Money
Voting Clerk Mary Price stands outside the 109-year-old Perry Town Hall. Located in a rural corner of Dane County, Wis., its population is 670. (Photo by Susan Lampert Smith)
Voting Rural Perry’s Only Polling Site Finally Gets Internet and Toilet for Election Day

Recent upgrades made possible through Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act grant.

Susan Lampert Smith Susan Lampert Smith November 3, 2020 1:49 pm CST
Voting Wisconsin Treasurer Sarah Godlewski, left, urges people to vote during a stop in Eau Claire with US Sen. Tammy Baldwin. The duo made appearances earlier in the day in Green Bay and Wausau. (Photo by Julian Emerson).
Voting Baldwin and Top Democrats Make Final Voter Turnout Push to Avoid 2016 Repeat

Trump won Wisconsin after sharply lower Democratic turnout in 2016.

Julian Emerson Julian Emerson November 2, 2020 5:39 pm CST