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Mandela Barnes’ rise is a true ‘Wisconsin story.’ But is it enough to win a Senate race?

MILWAUKEE — Angela Lang has seen the ads attempting to paint Senate candidate Mandela Barnes as soft on crime. The one she takes issue with most features clips of real Wisconsin shootings. As a blurry figure fires into a crowd of people, the shooter is circled in red and Barnes’…

Los Angeles Times

‘Chaos and confusion’: The campaign to stamp out ballot drop boxes

In 2020, ballot drop boxes were a sturdy, metallic symbol of increased voter access amid a pandemic. Absentee and mail voting surged across the country, and voters used drop boxes to return 41% of those ballots.

Tribune News Service

All candidates for Wisconsin State Assembly District 55 complete Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey

Both of the candidates running in the November 8, 2022, general election for Wisconsin State Assembly District 55 — Stefanie Holt (D) and Nate Gustafson (R) — completed Ballotpedia’s Candidate Connection survey. These survey responses allow voters to hear directly from candidates about what motivates them to run for office.

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Wisconsin Democratic candidates have raised $221,896 more than Republicans

In Wisconsin, state-level candidates have raised $77.5 million between Jan. 1, 2021, and Aug. 31, 2022. Democratic candidates have raised $35.3 million and Republican candidates have raised $35.1 million.

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Campaign finance deadline today in Wisconsin

Candidates and organizations involved in Wisconsin’s statewide elections must file campaign finance information by October 31, 2022. The general election will take place in Wisconsin on November 8, 2022.

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Poll workers train for conflict: 'A little nervous? I am.'

America is getting ready to vote in the midterm election, and poll workers around the country are bracing for possible conflict in an era of polarization and misinformation

The Independent UK

Fired up Barack Obama blitzes the campaign trail in final stretch before midterms

Former president seeks to reverse last-minute polling drops for Democrats in key states

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Barnes' Senate bid may ride on Milwaukee's Black turnout

In Wisconsin's tight U.S. Senate race, Democrat Mandela Barnes' chances to unseat two-term Sen. Ron Johnson may rest with how well he turns out Black voters who don't always show up in big numbers

The Independent UK

Wisconsin appeals court won't block ballot spoiling ban

A Wisconsin appeals court is refusing to block a lower court’s ruling banning the practice known as ballot spoiling, which allows voters who already submitted an absentee ballot to void it and vote again

The Independent UK

US voters with disabilities face maze of new restrictions

Nearly 18 million Americans with disabilities voted in the 2020 election, but new laws this year may change turnout

The Guardian - US

Minnesota has become an island of abortion access

MOORHEAD, Minn. — The move, as the crow flies, was about two miles — just across the Red River into Minnesota. But for North Dakota’s last abortion provider, it was a world apart.

Tribune News Service

What's on the minds of young voters in Milwaukee? A lot

Polls found that young people were among the least likely to vote this fall. But the end of Roe v. Wade has helped boost voter registration among them. Other issues are also important to young voters.

WEKU

Man admits helping son hide bodies in Wisconsin farm field after St. Paul quadruple murder

MINNEAPOLIS — A St. Paul man has admitted that he helped his son hide in a western Wisconsin farm field the bodies from a quadruple murder last year.

Tribune News Service

Wynn wants to make it harder to vote

Law Group that includes Karl Rove, Bill Barr stirs unfounded doubts about integrity of election system, say critics

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A Wisconsin man is convicted of killing 6 with an SUV in a Christmas parade

Darrell Brooks drove his Ford Escape into the parade in Waukesha outside Milwaukee in November. The jury verdict ends a trial in which he defended himself erratically and sometimes confrontationally.

Chicago Sun-Times

Man convicted of killing 6 with SUV in Wisconsin Christmas parade

The jury found Darrell Brooks guilty of six counts of first-degree intentional homicide. He faces a mandatory life sentence on each count.

The Independent UK

Man convicted of killing 6 with SUV in Christmas parade

A jury has convicted a Wisconsin man of killing six people when he drove his SUV into a Christmas parade last year

Axios

Jury finds man guilty of killing 6 at Wisconsin Christmas parade

Sixty-two other people were also injured in the 2021 attack.

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Salon

A billing expert dissects an ER bill

An expert in medical billing explains how to identify mistaken charges, based on her own experience

The Independent UK

Prosecutors: Wisconsin parade suspect meant to hurt people

Prosecutors have told jurors that a Wisconsin man intended to hurt people when he drove his SUV into a Christmas parade last year

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These are the most expensive contested elections in the Wisconsin State Assembly

Elections for all 99 seats in the Wisconsin State Assembly will take place on Nov. 8, 2022. Republicans hold a 57-38 majority heading into the election.

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These are the most expensive contested elections in the Wisconsin Senate

Elections for 17 of 33 seats in the Wisconsin State Senate will take place on Nov. 8, 2022. Republicans hold a 21-12 majority heading into the election.

The Independent UK

Six people found dead after Wisconsin apartment fire had been shot in apparent murder-suicide

Police say the six people found dead after an apartment fire in a southern Wisconsin village last week had been shot in an apparent case of murder-suicide

The Independent UK

Police: 6 who died in Wisconsin apartment fire had been shot

Police say the six people found dead after an apartment fire in a southern Wisconsin village last week had been shot in an apparent case of murder-suicide

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