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 […]
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Why do we Need to Vote
African Americans and women have always fought to vote. There’s been a long history of preventing people of color from voting. African Americans knew that the inability to vote resulted in economic, political, and social harm to themselves, their families, and their communities. Originally under the Constitution, only white male citizens over the age of […]
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Vote Like Your Life Depends on It (Because it really Matters)
By LaKeshia N. Myers At age thirty-eight, I am among the first generation in my family who was born with unencumbered voting rights. My parents, both born in the 1950s, to waited patiently to vote until they were twenty-one, which was at that time, the age of majority. My grandparents voted much later in life […]
Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes Reaches out to Connect with Milwaukee’s Black Voters
By Karen Stokes Black voters could play an important role in determining the outcome of key 2022 midterm races in the United States in November. A large part of that outcome will hinge on the ability for candidates to aggressively turn out Black voters, a key Democratic constituency. Black voter turnout across the state of […]
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Faith Without Works Is Dead
Legislatively Speaking By Senator Lena C. Taylor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase”. While the concept of the quote was not original, it captures what many voters do every time they step into a voting booth. They put faith in […]
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 […]
Democratic Candidates Rally to Excite Voter Turnout in Milwaukee
By Karen Stokes A crowd of about 200 people rallied at the Washington Park Senior Center in support of Wisconsin Democratic candidates Saturday at the first ever, ‘Win Milwaukee, Win Wisconsin’ rally. Democratic candidates appeared to urge their supporters to vote in this extremely important race to keep Wisconsin moving forward. Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers […]
Innovative Effort to Encourage Wisconsin Voting Nov. 8 Offering $10,000 in Scholarships for Creating Best Art for Social Media to Turn Out Voters
Students, other residents, are focus of competition, which runs through Oct. 14 Milwaukee – A competition to create highly effective social media graphics that encourage voting, with $10,000 in scholarship prizes for students and others who create the most effective designs, has been launched by a non-partisan coalition of organizations seeking to increase turnout at […]
State Sending Postcard Reminders to Unregistered Voters
By Shawn Johnson Wisconsin Public Radio The Wisconsin Election Commission will mail about 178,500 postcards to eligible voters who are not yet registered to vote. The postcards, which will be mailed Friday, tell recipients they can register to vote online. The mailing does not include a voter registration form. The postcards are required under Wisconsin’s […]
Advocates for Voters with Disabilities Express Angst Over Case that’s Before Wisconsin Supreme Court
By Matt Martinez 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. Disability rights activists in Wisconsin are concerned that a case before the Wisconsin Supreme Court will disenfranchise voters who cannot cast their ballots unassisted. In past elections, […]