Wisconsin Watch
From the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism
Displaying all 10 Episode of Wisconsin Watch with the tag “voting”.
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Wisconsin billionaires quietly bankroll effort to shrink state’s social safety net
August 28th, 2023 | 16 mins 18 secs
insurance, medicaid, news, statehouse, voting, wisconsin, wisconsin watch
A group funded by deep-pocketed GOP donors is pushing to make it harder to vote and to receive unemployment insurance and Medicaid
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Voting has gotten harder in Wisconsin. Organizers have found ways to help
June 22nd, 2023 | 17 mins 10 secs
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Two different research initiatives have documented the ways it’s now more difficult to vote in Wisconsin, from disparities in access to added barriers.
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Why some Wisconsin residents with mental disabilities lose voting rights — and how they can restore them
May 30th, 2023 | 12 mins 13 secs
disability, news, voting, voting rights, wisconsin
In Wisconsin and most states, judges may determine someone is ‘incompetent’ to vote. Here’s what people with mental disabilities should know about their rights.
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‘Election integrity’ proposals do not address most common voting infraction in Wisconsin
April 25th, 2023 | 17 mins 53 secs
elections, news, voting, wisconsin
Prosecutors charged just 192 people with election-related crimes since 2012, but more than half of the cases were related to felony probation status
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Evers beats Michels for Wisconsin governor; Johnson defeats Barnes in U.S. Senate race
January 3rd, 2023 | 10 mins 47 secs
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Evers beats Michels for Wisconsin governor; Johnson defeats Barnes in U.S. Senate race
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Many in Wisconsin GOP drop ‘stop the steal’ talk, play up inflation, crime
January 3rd, 2023 | 17 mins 28 secs
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As they try to win enough seats for a supermajority to override a governor’s veto, most Republicans don’t even mention ‘election integrity’ on their websites
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Bids to alter Wisconsin elections fall mostly along partisan lines
April 13th, 2021 | 18 mins 43 secs
elections, news, politics, voting, wisconsin
Republicans want to restrict drop boxes and absentee voting. Democrats aim to make it easier to vote. Both parties favor quicker vote counting.
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Could lawmakers ‘mess’ with Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes? Possibly.
January 28th, 2021 | 21 mins 16 secs
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Experts say pro-Trump lawmakers could try to overturn voters’ will and send an alternate set of electors, but the Democratic governor could block the effort.
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Wisconsin GOP lawmakers call for tighter voting rules; Dems call election hearing a ‘sham’
January 5th, 2021 | 17 mins 5 secs
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Republicans called for changes to election law and made broad allegations of fraud and misconduct but offered little proof.
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A Wisconsin man with visual impairment tried to vote. The coronavirus got in his way.
October 7th, 2020 | 7 mins 1 sec
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Don Natzke says he was stymied by a series of insurmountable barriers as Wisconsin held its April 7 election in the midst of the pandemic.