Elections

Milwaukee’s top election official is planning to order one ballot per registered voter for future spring elections after some polling sites in the city ran out of ballots during the April election. 

The treasurer of rural Adams County in central Wisconsin says she has no plans to leave office despite the county board’s vote to replace her with the person she defeated in the most recent election.

Shaundel Washington-Spivey, La Crosse’s first Black and first openly gay mayor, currently serves on the Governor’s Equity and Inclusion Advisory Council.

Madison’s former city clerk violated city policies during this November’s election and in the aftermath of the mistake when 193 absentee ballots went uncounted, a city investigation concluded.

A lawsuit filed Tuesday aims to bring a long-dormant practice known as fusion voting back to Wisconsin. Fusion voting allows for a candidate to appear on the ballot more than once, next to every political party that endorses them.

The former Supreme Court justice has agreed to surrender his law license after years of avoiding consequences for his behavior, including a previously unreported incident at the 2016 Republican National Convention.

The nearly 200 absentee ballots that went uncounted in November 2024 would not have changed the outcome of any race or referendum. But bipartisan members of the Wisconsin Elections Commison have been sharply critical of the error.

Coattails from the state Supreme Court contest last week might not have affected races on local ballots in northwest Wisconsin, according to a UW-Superior political science professor.

After a bruising Wisconsin Supreme Court defeat, conservatives are searching for answers — and some are pointing fingers.

Voters approved about 55 percent of the 89 referendums across the state, leaving 45 percent of districts now scrambling to figure out what’s next.