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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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Press Release
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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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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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.
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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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Wisconsin Elections Commission steps in to challenge Madison’s argument on absentee voting
A rare court filing adds to the growing condemnation of the city’s defense against a lawsuit seeking monetary damages for votes that weren’t counted in 2024.
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Liberals criticize Madison officials’ stance on absentee voting
"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," the groups wrote.
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Wisconsin Congressman sponsors sweeping election reform legislation
Congressman Bryan Steil’s MEGA Act has a laundry list of goals. It would require photo ID to vote, require states to verify citizenship during voter registration, require strong voter list maintenance, require mail-in ballots to be received by the close of polls on Election Day (with exceptions for military members overseas), and require states to use auditable paper ballots. It would also ban ballot harvesting, ban ranked choice voting and ban universal vote by mail.
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Bianca Shaw Named State Director of Common Cause Wisconsin
A new Common Cause leader will drive the organization’s pro-democracy work in Wisconsin, as Bianca Shaw joins the team as its newest state director.
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Voting Rights Groups, Wisconsin Voters Challenge Trump Administration’s Unwarranted Grab For Private Data
Groups File Motion to Intervene in U.S. Department of Justice Lawsuit Against Wisconsin Elections Commission
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Wisconsin candidates decry money in politics, promise to raise a ton of it
Ending the vicious cycle of campaign cash and the destruction of democracy
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Unlimited donations, weak recusal rules led to record Wisconsin Supreme Court spending
Democrats seek to revive public financing of Supreme Court elections after previous attempts failed