Elections
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Can you use a student ID to vote in Wisconsin? Yes, but it’s complicated.
Voters can show their IDs from a Wisconsin college or university in order to vote. But not all IDs are accepted.
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Out-of-state billionaires fuel Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Unprecedented levels of funding backing either Dane County Judge Susan Crawford or Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel have come from across the country.
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Wisconsin appeals court won’t stop Musk’s $1M payments to voters after attorney general sues
A Wisconsin appellate court 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
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Elon Musk plans Wisconsin visit to give $2M to 2 people ahead of state Supreme Court race
Billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll visit Wisconsin to personally give $2 million to two people ahead of the state Supreme Court election, despite a state law that explicitly bans giving people anything of value in exchange for voting. Wisconsin Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court Friday seeking to stop the event.
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Voters will decide the next state superintendent April 1. What does the Department of Public Instruction do?
The state Department of Public Instruction sets the direction of public education in Wisconsin. Here’s what the agency and the state superintendent do.
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Elon Musk gives $1M to Wisconsinite who signed petition opposing ‘activist judges’
The seven-figure payment comes days before the April 1 election where PACs associated with Musk have spent tens of millions on Wisconsin’s pivotal Supreme Court race.
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Debates over Wisconsin voter ID law go back years. What does the evidence show?
Voters can’t escape ads for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1, but the same election will also decide whether a voter ID requirement should be enshrined in the state constitution. We know more now about how the requirement impacts voting than we did when it was passed as a law 14 years ago.
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Trump order on noncitizen voting won’t affect Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court election
A new executive order issued by President Donald Trump that seeks to affect voting laws will have no impact on next week’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
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Top House Democrat says liberal Supreme Court majority only path to revisit Wisconsin’s congressional maps
The top Democrat in the U.S. House of Representatives says Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election is vital because the only way to challenge “gerrymandered” congressional voting maps is “if you have an enlightened Supreme Court” overseeing a legal challenge.
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A week out from Wisconsin Supreme Court race, finance numbers reach stratosphere
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has entered a new level of spending that experts say could reach $100 million by the time it’s all said and done.