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Category: Narrow Margin

Narrow Margin is a series by Wisconsin Watch staff, media partners and a University of Wisconsin-Madison investigative journalism class. The project is examining voting security, suppression and disinformation aimed at voters in Wisconsin — a crucial state that could determine the winner of the 2020 presidential election. The investigative reporting class is led by Dee J. Hall, managing editor for Wisconsin Watch.

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Bids to alter Wisconsin elections fall mostly along partisan lines

Avatar photo by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch March 9th, 2021March 8th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

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

Avatar photo by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch March 9th, 2021July 13th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The state ranks relatively well on most measures of election administration. But some advocates say Wisconsin could do more to help people vote.

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

In evenly split Wisconsin, partisan divides may only grow

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch and Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch January 23rd, 2021April 8th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Close elections may become more common in Wisconsin, fueling participation but also more political divisiveness

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

‘We’re not going to be quiet’: Disability community in Wisconsin demands better access to voting

Avatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch January 12th, 2021March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

State’s decentralized election system makes it hard to guarantee accessibility; definition of ‘indefinitely confined’ under challenge

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Wisconsin caucuses pose thorny safety issues during pandemic

Avatar photo by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch January 7th, 2021March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Some towns and villages require residents to choose local candidates in January gatherings. Do these caucuses violate disability and voting rights?

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

Wisconsin’s nonvoters could be a powerful bloc — but barriers, disillusionment stand in the way

Avatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch December 28th, 2020March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Working digitally and on the streets of Milwaukee, activists tried to convince nonvoters to go to the polls, but distrust and disgust kept some away

Posted inGovernment, Narrow Margin

A pandemic. False fraud claims. A misplaced flash drive. How Milwaukee elections chief led high-pressure vote count.

Avatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch December 15th, 2020March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Facing intense scrutiny, Claire Woodall-Vogg fought against ‘racially motivated’ attempts to suppress voting in the 2020 election.

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch and Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch December 11th, 2020March 8th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Republicans called for changes to election law and made broad allegations of fraud and misconduct but offered little proof.

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Despite a surge in absentee voting, changes to ballot processing languish in Wisconsin

Avatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch December 3rd, 2020March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Municipal clerks have urged the Legislature to allow processing of absentee ballots before Election Day. Those cries are growing louder.

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Wisconsin GOP official bucks Trump and draws backlash: ‘There is no fraud in this election’

Avatar photo by Howard Hardee November 30th, 2020March 1st, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Lifelong Republican Rohn Bishop believes the GOP must stop trafficking in conspiracies and falsehoods, for the good of his party — and the country

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

Avatar photo by Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch November 25th, 2020February 24th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

Experts say pro-Trump lawmakers could try to overturn voters’ will and send an alternate set of electors, but the Democratic governor could block the effort

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

Avatar photoAvatar photo by Nora Eckert / Wisconsin Watch and Anya Van Wagtendonk / Wisconsin Watch November 21st, 2020February 24th, 2021 Why you can trust Wisconsin Watch

The president’s team wants to toss 170,000 in-person absentee ballots in Dane and Milwaukee counties; experts call the effort a long shot.

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