Two different research initiatives have documented the ways it’s now more difficult to vote in Wisconsin, from disparities in access to added barriers. by Matt Mencarini Wisconsin Watch Around noon on an overcast April Election Day, dozens of canvassers returned to a second-floor conference room of the Greater Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church on Milwaukee’s […]
‘Election integrity’ proposals do not address most common voting infraction in Wisconsin
By Matt Mencarini Wisconsin Watch Election fraud is exceptionally rare: Over the past decade in Wisconsin, it has been prosecuted fewer than 200 times, or about once for every 163,000 ballots cast. And within that tiny universe, the most common reason for criminal charges is not people voting under dead people’s names, double voting or […]
Thousands of Eligible Wisconsin Voters Face Ballot Barriers in Jail
By Matt Mencarini Wisconsin Watch Erin McGroarty Wisconsin Watch Phoebe Petrovic Wisconsin Watch This story was originally published by Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service, where you can find other stories reporting on fifteen city neighborhoods in Milwaukee. Visit milwaukeenns.org. Within a few years of returning from two traumatic combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, David Carlson […]