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One Week Until Election Day: Use Nonpartisan Hotline for Help Voting

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One Week Until Election Day: Use Nonpartisan Hotline for Help Voting

With one week to go before the April general election, Common Cause is encouraging voters to call or text the nonpartisan hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE, if they encounter any challenges when casting a ballot.
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One Week Until Election Day: Use Nonpartisan Hotline for Help Voting

Press Release

One Week Until Election Day: Use Nonpartisan Hotline for Help Voting

With one week to go before the April general election, Common Cause is encouraging voters to call or text the nonpartisan hotline, 866-OUR-VOTE, if they encounter any challenges when casting a ballot.

Voting Rights Group to Provide Nonpartisan Hotline

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Voting Rights Group to Provide Nonpartisan Hotline

Common Cause is part of the largest nonpartisan election protection program in the nation, which runs the 866-OUR-VOTE hotline and protectthevote.net website

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Ways YOU Can Protect Voting in Wisconsin and Be Voter Ready in 2026

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Ways YOU Can Protect Voting in Wisconsin and Be Voter Ready in 2026

Elections are just getting started in Wisconsin. As you prepare to vote in this year’s elections, here are some wonderful opportunities for how you can help protect our freedom to vote in Wisconsin.

Editorial | City’s argument in uncounted ballots case troubling

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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."

Steil joins House GOP in pushing proof-of-citizenship voting act

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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.

Facing Pushback, MPD Halts Use of Facial Recognition Technology

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Facing Pushback, MPD Halts Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Facing community pushback and a possible Fire & Police Commission (FPC) directive, the Milwaukee Police Department (MPD) is pausing its use of facial recognition technology.

Wisconsin voting groups call Madison absentee ballot defense ‘dangerous’

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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.

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