The Wausau Daily Herald highlights some of the real life stories behind voter ID, including an 84 year old woman who now needs an ID to vote but never has needed one before. The article quotes Andrea Kaminski, executive director…
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Network partner Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has filed a complaint with the state Government Accountability Board regarding twenty-nine campaign contributors who exceeded state contribution limits in 2010. The donors contributed between $10,200 and $16,150 to individual candidates,…
Today, Network partners Justice at Stake and Brennan Center for Justice, along with the National Institute on Money in State Politics, released a report, The New Politics of Judicial Elections, which provides an overview of some of the major…
Network partner League of Women Voters of Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit against a new state law requiring voters to show a photo ID when they go to the polls. The challenge asserts that under the Wisconsin state constitution, people…
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The Wisconsin State Journal reports that in the event of a gubernatorial recall in Wisconsin, incumbents can raise unlimited amounts of money from individual donors within a specified window.
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Network groups have signed on to a letter organized by Campaign Legal Center in support of President Obama’s proposed executive order requiring government contractors to disclose their political donations. Read the full text of the letter below:May 4, 2011The Hon.…
The Obama administration is passing around a draft executive order that would require companies with government contracts and their executives to disclose their political donations.In the wake of the DISCLOSE act’s failure to pass a Senate filibuster in the last…
Vote totals in Wisconsin changed dramatically as uncounted votes from Waukesha County broke heavily for the incumbent Justice David Prosser.Over 14,000 votes from Waukesha County went unreported in official tallies, with the error being first recognized on Thursday. County…
Updating some of the stories that we have been keeping up with, there has been some movement in Wisconsin and Ohio.In Wisconsin this morning, the state’s Department of Administration said that they would not comply with…
Wisconsin’s controversial “budget repair” law was set to go into effect later this week. However, a Dane County judge issued a temporary restraining order to delay the law from being published to see if open meetings laws may have been…
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