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Wisconsin Election Protection
We work with Election Protection Coalition partners to safeguard elections in Wisconsin and help voters cast their ballot without confusion, obstruction, or intimidation.
Stopping Voter Suppression
Some elected officials are trying to silence voters by creating needless barriers to the ballot box. Common Cause is fighting back against these anti-democracy efforts.
We should be able to make our voices heard at the polls and have a say in the leaders who represent us. But sometimes, politicians push for laws that discourage, obstruct, or even intimidate voters in an effort to cling to their power.
Polling place closures, limits to vote-by-mail, and needlessly strict voter ID regulations can prevent eligible voters from casting their ballot—and lately, this playbook of voter suppression strategies has become more popular. Common Cause is stopping voter suppression by opposing these efforts in the legislature, in the courts, and beyond in defense of the right to vote.
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Taking Action, Making a Difference and Getting Involved During Difficult Times in Our State, Our Country and The World
The Alternative to Despair and Discouragement is Engagement for Positive Change
Impact
The Cure for the Ills of Democracy is Indeed More Democracy
Common Cause Wisconsin updates and actions for Summer 2025
Recap
Spring Has Finally Arrived in Wisconsin and With It — Required Action on the Democracy Front at both the State and Federal Level!
It's been a busy April
Press
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Editorial | City’s argument in uncounted ballots case troubling
A coalition of voting rights groups, including the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, the League of Women Voters of Wisconsin, Common Cause Wisconsin, the ACLU of Wisconsin, the All in Wisconsin Fund and the group All Voting is Local proclaimed: "Voting is a constitutional right. Once a state permits absentee voting, every voter who lawfully casts an absentee ballot has the right to have their ballot counted. Full stop."
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Steil joins House GOP in pushing proof-of-citizenship voting act
House Republicans rushed to approve legislation on Wednesday that would impose strict new proof-of-citizenship requirements ahead of the midterm elections, a long shot Trump administration priority that faces sharp blowback in the Senate.
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Wisconsin voting groups call Madison absentee ballot defense ‘dangerous’
Six Wisconsin voting groups are now joining the Democracy Defense Project and Gov. Tony Evers in objecting to Madison and former clerk's legal argument that absentee voting is not a constitutional right.
Erin Grunze
Program Manager Wisconsin
Common Cause Wisconsin