She spent years making sure every ballot was accounted for. On the day she died, Wisconsin Rapids held an election without her.
Plans are in early stages still, but Democratic election leaders in both legislative chambers told Votebeat that they’ll be taking a long look at the state’s entire election code.
Past mistakes have made Milwaukee’s elections a target for Republican critics — but this year, they stopped watching as soon as it became clear they had lost.
Voters headed to the polls amid unprecedented concern about federal interference.
As of Thursday, voters had cast 344,000 in-person absentee ballots, compared with 224,000 at this point in 2022.
The two candidates offer strikingly different views and rhetoric on election administration.
A dispute between the state’s second-largest county and its election agency highlights different approaches to the prospect of federal intervention at the polls.
Voters told Votebeat that they just don’t trust the mail anymore.
Officials are telling voters not to return ballots by mail if Election Day is less than two weeks away.
The narrow ruling allows officials to count ballots that arrive at polls late solely because of election official errors.




