Data Shows Republican Voter Roll Purge Targets Democratic Voting Communities
The communities with the largest numbers of voters targeted in a right-wing instigated voter roll purge also delivered big vote margins for Democrats in 2016.
The communities with the largest numbers of voters targeted in a right-wing instigated voter roll purge also delivered big vote margins for Democrats in 2016.
The right-wing effort to impose a voter roll purge in Wisconsin is just the latest effort to rig the rules to give Dan Kelly an unfair advantage.
Inviting the meddling of Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald means more electoral mischief, not solutions. [Wisconsin Examiner]
A state-based advocacy group filed a similar federal lawsuit challenging requirements for student IDs earlier this year. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
The case is being brought by the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty (WILL), with whom Dan Kelly has been closely associated.
Reacting to WILL’s lawsuit Wednesday, liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now condemned the suit. [Courthouse News Service]
One Wisconsin Now Institute said the suit is a tactic utilized around the country by conservatives seeking to manipulate the rules on voting. [Wisconsin Radio Network]
[One Wisconsin Institute] said WILL's suit is an attempt to manipulate the rules to give conservative-backed Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Dan Kelly. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Right-wing supporters of Dan Kelly are going to court to try to purge registered Wisconsinites from poll lists.
One Wisconsin [Institute] won a victory in January, convincing U.S. District Judge James Peterson to block the early-voting restrictions. [Associated Press]
The right wing in Wisconsin is going to pull out all the stops to keep Dan Kelly around like trying to bully a commission into a pre-election voter roll purge.
Analiese Eicher told CNN the recent complaint against the Wisconsin Elections Commission could negatively affect demographics groups that tend to vote Democrat. [CNN]
Analiese Eicher, executive director of the liberal One Wisconsin Now, accused the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty of trying to give Republicans an advantage in next year's elections with a "back-door voter roll purge." [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Mike Browne, Deputy Director at One Wisconsin Institute, explains the ERIC process. [WORT-FM]
Analiese Eicher, director of the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute said this was an attempt to "bully the Elections Commission into a backdoor voter roll purge." [Associated Press]
The right wing in Wisconsin has a long and shameful record of manipulating the rules on voting for their own advantage.
Badger State liberals did see a win in another federal lawsuit brought by One Wisconsin Institute. [Courthouse News Service]
GOP legislators agreed to confidentiality when leaders rigged district lines, now reject effort to comply with law they passed.
In the three years since Judge Peterson’s ruling, Wisconsin voters have shown that they will vote when given the opportunity to vote.
A judge in January ruled against Republicans in a challenge from One Wisconsin Institute. [Capital Times]
The original case the lame-duck grievance was filed under is still awaiting a decision by the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
[One Wisconsin Institute] challenged the early-voting restrictions in federal court in December. [Associated Press]
In the second federal lawsuit filed by One Wisconsin Institute... [James Peterson] blocked early-voting limits. [Courthouse News Service]
On this day in 1919, Wisconsin was the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment to give women the right to vote.
In one of the suits, filed by One Wisconsin Institute [a judge] blocked early-voting limits contained in the lame-duck bills. [Courthouse News Service]
[One Wisconsin Institute] persuaded U.S. District Judge James Peterson ... to strike down the limits on early in-person voting. [Associated Press]
Republicans summed up their attitude toward democracy and voter rights today by refusing to even allow a vote on voter rights.
In 2016, a federal court in Wisconsin struck down the requirement that college or university IDs be unexpired. [Associated Press]
The ruling echoed Judge Peterson’s previous 2016 injunction he handed down after One Wisconsin Institute sued ... over voting laws. [Courthouse News Service]
One Wisconsin Institute... asked U.S. District Judge James Peterson to enforce his earlier [early voting] decision. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
Early and absentee voting in the April 2019 election has reached record levels for a non-presidential primary Spring election.
[One Wisconsin Institute] convinced U.S. District Judge James Peterson to block the early voting restrictions in January of this year. [TruthOut]
A federal judge ruled in favor of One Wisconsin Institute ... in a challenge against the provisions of the extraordinary session laws [Capital Times]
Robin Vos won’t talk in connection with a lawsuit filed over his and state Republicans’ rigging of state legislative district lines.
A right-wing group formed to help Republicans rig districts for an unfair electoral advantage announced it has retained Scott Walker.
A federal judge ruled in January in favor of One Wisconsin Institute and Citizen Action of Wisconsin in a challenge... [Capital Times]
[One Wisconsin Institute] convinced U.S. District Judge James Peterson to block the early voting restrictions in January of this year. [Center for Media and Democracy]
Liberal advocacy group [One Wisconsin Institute] challenged the law’s early-voting restrictions in federal court. [Wisconsin State Journal]
“The real fraud in our elections is when politicians manipulate the rules to give themselves an unfair advantage.” [Wisconsin State Journal]
We applaud Gov. Tony Evers’ leadership, taking Wisconsin in a new direction to help make voting easier and more convenient.
“Legal voters ... ought not be denied the right to have their voices heard in our elections because of bureaucratic roadblocks.” [Daily Cardinal]
In a challenge brought by One Wisconsin Institute ... Judge James Peterson in 2016 found ... voting changes unconstitutional. [Capital Times]
Gov. Tony Evers includes important steps to address the $1.5 trillion-plus student loan debt crisis and protect voting rights.
One Wisconsin [Institute] has sought to overturn the provisions of the lame-duck law that curtailed access to early voting. [Wisconsin State Journal]
A conglomerate of labor union groups, the One Wisconsin Institute ... and three groups ... filed three separate lawsuits. [Badger Herald]
One Wisconsin Institute ... asked a federal judge to block a provision that limited early voting. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
[One Wisconsin Institute persuaded a judge] to strike down sections of the lame-duck law that restricted early voting. [Associated Press]
[One Wisconsin Institute’s] challenge against reducing early voting was struck down by U.S. District Judge James Peterson.. [WKOW-TV]
[One Wisconsin Institute] challenged the early voting restrictions in federal court last month. [Associated Press]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now challenged the early-voting restrictions in federal court in December. [Associated Press]