Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election could change the makeup of the court and affect the outcome of rulings on election law and other key issues.
The city and county face an unusual claim for monetary damages over lost ballots. Could that approach succeed?
The state Supreme Court’s occasional flip-flops have emboldened activists to file more legal challenges, leaving local clerks and voters to deal with the fallout.
Veteran official Mike Haas will fill in for Maribeth Witzel-Behl and oversee the April 1 election.
Clerks could get statewide guidance that includes new accounting procedures and end-of-night steps for Election Day.
The contest between a liberal and a conservative will determine the court’s ideological tilt, which may prove consequential in disputes over ID requirements, drop boxes, and noncitizen voting.
Wisconsin has written uniform guidelines for how to cast absentee ballots, but local clerks are free to alter them, creating new rules that aren’t backed by state law.
Meagan Wolfe has become one of the most respected — and scrutinized — election officials nationwide, and faced a Republican effort to oust her.
The city clerk says her office told the county. The county clerk says that’s not true.
State law leaves a window for correcting totals, but city officials didn’t report the discovery until after it closed.