Investigators say the former clerk who failed to count nearly 200 ballots in November's elections in Wisconsin's capital city didn't break any laws but did violate policy and breached her contractual duty to supervise elections and maintain professional standards.
A lawsuit in battleground Wisconsin seeks to legalize a once-popular practice of fusion voting, where the same candidate could appear on the ballot as nominated by multiple political parties.
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/27070284
A little background information, as I've recounted a few times on Lemmy: Back in the '90s, UW-Madison professor Joel Rogers co-founded an aspirational new political party—creatively named the New Party—that tried to revive fusion voting. They endorsed a Democratic candidate for the Minnesota House in 1994, and the Minnesota DFL objected. They took the case to the Supreme Court, which upheld the ban on fusion voting. The New Party lost momentum and fell apart soon afterwards. Progressive Dane, based in Madison, is the only remaining New Party affiliate.
It's not surprising to see the Wisconsin Republican Party objecting to the practice; it will be interesting to see what the Wisconsin Democratic Party thinks. (I recently learned from the Wikipedia page on fusion voting that the Republicans and Democrats used to run fusion candidates to defeat socialists in Milwaukee.)
I wish United Wisconsin all the luck.
A Wisconsin appellate court has denied the state Democratic attorney general’s request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday, just two days before a closely contested Supreme Court election.
Wisconsin AG Sues to Block Musk's Multimillion Dollar Election Eve Voter Bribe
Attorney General Josh Kaul accused the world's richest person and top Trump adviser of "a blatant attempt to violate" Wisconsin's election bribery law.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35130859
Attorney General Josh Kaul accused the world's richest person and top Trump adviser of "a blatant attempt to violate" Wisconsin's election bribery law.
Case file: https://www.wisdoj.gov/PressReleases/kaul-v-musk-summons-complaint.pdf
VILLAGE OF BELMONT, Wis (WKOW) -- In a town with just over 1,000 residents, hundreds of people packed the Village of Belmont's Community Building Saturday for a town hall meeting
The digital ad run by Building America's Future features a photo of Susan P. Crawford, a Harvard professor, not liberal candidate Susan M. Crawford.
One of the first attack ads launched by a Elon Musk-backed group in the hotly contested state Supreme Court race has landed with a resounding thud.
That's because the ad that Building America's Future is currently running on social media doesn't feature Susan M. Crawford, the liberal Dane County judge running for the high court against conservative Brad Schimel.
Rather, the digital ad has a large photo of Susan P. Crawford, a law school professor at Harvard University. It appears Building America's Future lifted her picture from her Wikipedia profile. A digital ad from the Elon Musk-backed group Building America's Future depicts the wrong Susan Crawford — the photo is of Harvard professor Susan P. Crawford, not Susan M. Crawford, the Dane County judge running for Wisconsin Supreme Court.
"Susan Crawford: Wrong for Wisconsin," the ad says.
Ok, but which Crawford?
Perhaps, more accurately, it should read, "Wrong Susan Crawford for Wisconsin."
The two women look alike to some degree
Republican lawmakers no show as western Wisconsin farmers complain of Trump chaos, disruption
cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/23524449
Seven western Wisconsin Republican lawmakers did not appear at an event hosted by the Wisconsin Farmers Union in Chippewa Falls Friday as farmers from the area said they were concerned about the effect that President Donald Trump’s first month in office is having on their livelihoods.
Madison-area U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Black Earth), state Sen. Jeff Smith (D-Eau Claire) and state Reps. Jodi Emerson (D-Eau Claire) and Christian Phelps (D-Eau Claire) were in attendance.
U.S. Reps. Tom Tiffany and Derrick Van Orden, state Reps. Rob Sommerfeld (R-Bloomer), Treig Pronschinske (R-Mondovi) and Clint Moses (R-Mondovi) and state Sens. Jesse James (R-Thorp) and Rob Stafsholt (R-New Richmond) were all invited but did not attend or send a staff member.
Republicans in the State Assembly introduced a package of education bills on Wednesday.
Fuck that requirement.
Elon Musk is trying to buy the Wisconsin supreme court
“His attack on democracy isn’t limited to gutting the federal government. He wants it all.”
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/33140391
Not content with spending more than a quarter of a billion dollars to elect Donald Trump and Republican candidates in 2024 and then taking a wrecking ball to the federal government, Elon Musk is now trying to flip the balance of power on the top court in one of the country’s most important swing states.
Building America’s Future, a dark money group backed by Musk, is spending at least $1.6 million in support of Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Brad Schimel, a conservative judge in suburban Milwaukee who is running for an open seat in an April election that will decide whether progressives or conservatives control the court. The group began running ads across the state on Thursday.
Governor’s budget plan cracks down on insurance companies and prescription price gouging, lowers out-of-pocket healthcare costs, aims to reduce appointment wait times and enable Wisconsinites to get
Business groups warn agriculture sector will collapse without foreign labour
Farmers need to stop voting against their own interests. You knew when they voted republican that your migrant workers would be deported.
A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice said Thursday he will not participate in a pending case that will determine whether tens of thousands of public sector workers regain collective bargaining rights that were taken away by a 2011 law.
Wisconsin Legislature to put photo ID requirement on ballot for voter approval
Once passed by the Assembly, the proposed constitutional amendment would appear on the April 1 ballot for voter consideration.
