Elections

A Wisconsin appeals court ruled that disabled people are not allowed to receive absentee ballots by email, overturning a lower court’s ruling less than three weeks before the April 1 election.

Madison’s mayor has placed City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl on paid administrative leave pending an investigation by the city into how nearly 200 absentee ballots went uncounted during the November 2024 election.

Months after losing a close election for Wisconsin’s 3rd Congressional District, Democrat Rebecca Cooke says she’ll once again challenge incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden for the seat.

Voters across Wisconsin will decide during the April 1 election whether to add a voter identification requirement to the state’s Constitution. Here’s what voters need to know.

WPR sent a survey to the candidates for state Supreme Court and state superintendent of public instruction. Here’s where they stand on the issues most important to you.

In a unanimous decision, the Wisconsin Elections Commission voted to hold depositions of Madison elections officials including city Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl. The commission wants more information about how 193 ballots went uncounted during the presidential election and weren’t reported to state officials for weeks.

Four Madison voters have launched a class-action lawsuit seeking $175,000 each because the city clerk’s office failed to count their ballots during the November presidential election.

A week after booking a seven-figure TV ad buy in Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court election, a political action group tied to Elon Musk has canceled one social media ad that featured the wrong person.

The School District of Mauston asked voters to exceed the state-imposed revenue limit by $1.75 million annually for the next four years. The referendum passed on Tuesday with around 66 percent of the vote, according to unofficial results.

Calling for a significant investment in kids from preschool to college, Gov. Tony Evers proposed a budget Tuesday that would invest heavily in education, increasing overall state spending by billions of dollars in the process.