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Author Archives: Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin WatchReporter

Anya van Wagtendonk joined the Center in 2020 as a reporter with Wisconsin Watch’s Votebeat collaboration — a pop-up nonprofit newsroom covering local election administration and voting in six states, created by Chalkbeat. Most recently, she covered local business and government in west Michigan at the Muskegon Chronicle and MLive. She is a former politics reporter and producer at the PBS NewsHour and regular politics and policy contributor at Vox.com, and has also worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer. A proud graduate of the the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, where she specialized in political reporting and documentary filmmaking, her freelance work has appeared in POLITICO Magazine, the Washington Post, Village Voice and elsewhere, and has been supported with grants from the Solutions Journalism Network, the New York National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and ACES: The Society for Editing.

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Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Bids to alter Wisconsin elections fall mostly along partisan lines

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch March 9th, 2021March 8th, 2021 Why you can trust WisconsinWatch.org

Republicans want to restrict drop boxes and absentee voting. Democrats aim to make it easier to vote. Both parties favor quicker vote counting.

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Experts offer advice on how to make voting easier in Wisconsin

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch March 9th, 2021July 13th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

In evenly split Wisconsin, partisan divides may only grow

by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch and Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch January 23rd, 2021April 8th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Wisconsin caucuses pose thorny safety issues during pandemic

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch January 7th, 2021March 1st, 2021
Posted inNews about Wisconsin Watch

Turbulent times need diligent reporters

by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch and Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch December 22nd, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Wisconsin GOP lawmakers call for tighter voting rules; Dems call election hearing a ‘sham’

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch and Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch December 11th, 2020March 8th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Could lawmakers ‘mess’ with Wisconsin’s 10 electoral votes? Possibly.

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch November 25th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Trump Wisconsin recount seeks to throw out tens of thousands of votes in Democratic strongholds

by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch and Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch November 21st, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

‘Proud of my city’: Turnout down, but Milwaukee’s Black voters leapt hurdles to vote

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch November 11th, 2020February 24th, 2021
Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Masks, poll watchers, pandemic: Wisconsin prepares for Election Day

by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch and Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch November 2nd, 2020February 24th, 2021

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