A similar early voting clampdown was found unconstitutional and "pretextual" in a sweeping opinion in U.S. District Court, One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen. [MAL Contends]
“The record turnout in this election shows voters vote, when given the opportunity to vote,” said Analiese Eicher, Program Director at One Wisconsin Now. [Milwaukee Independent]
Winner: One Wisconsin Now and Josh Kaul: The historically high early voting in Milwaukee and Madison were key to the victory of Kaul and Evers. [Urban Milwaukee]
Wisconsin voters turned out in record numbers for the 2018 midterm election sending the clear message that voters vote, when given the opportunity to vote.
After setting early absentee voting records in 2016, Wisconsin voters are again setting records with early absentee voting in 2018.
Madison has seen high turnouts since 2016, when the One Wisconsin Institute's federal court decision swept away much of the Republican voter-obstruction legislation. [In These Times]
A federal judge already flagged the issue as part of a lawsuit brought by One Wisconsin Institute that overturned restrictions on in-person absentee voting. [Wisconsin State Journal]
Scot Ross, executive director of the liberal Madison group One Wisconsin Now, and state Sen. Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, urged the city to offer early voting at UW-Green Bay. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
Sen. Dave Hansen and One Wisconsin Now Executive Director Scot Ross urged Northeastern Wisconsin residents to take advantage of the opportunity to vote early.
A federal judge in July 2016 struck down certain restrictions on early voting hours and locations in the One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen case. [WisPolitics]
A public hearing on Assembly Bill 637 today underscores serious flaws in the proposal that put it at odds with a federal court decision protecting early voting.
Nelson commented that midtown was on the places with an early voting site in Milwaukee. This came about due to One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen. [Milwaukee Courier]
Tom Barrett joined One Wisconsin Institute in announcing the city approved funds for eight places where Milwaukee resident can vote absentee in person. [Wisconsin Radio Network]
Voting rights advocates are celebrating passage of a budget provision adding early voting sites in the City of Milwaukee.
Voter turnout has increased since a federal court ruling in the One Wisconsin Institute case in July 2016 lifted a state prohibition on municipalities offering more than one location for in-person absentee voting. [Capital Times]
The early voting numbers send a clear message to state lawmakers and local election administrators – voters have embraced early voting and they should too.
A judge ruled in the One Wisconsin Institute case that certain laws restricting voting rights are unconstitutional. [Capital Times]
Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Institute... issued a statement Monday calling early voting “an amazing success.” [Wisconsin State Journal]
"These record numbers show that voters vote when given the opportunity to vote," said One Wisconsin Institute executive director Scot Ross. [Capital Times]
The reason why: record-setting early voting throughout the state. That’s thanks in part to a lawsuit filed by the liberal group One Wisconsin [Institute]. [Capital Times]
A federal court ruling in the voting rights suit paved the way for expanded days, hours and sites for early voting in Wisconsin.
Scot Ross said the statements by Vos suggested Republicans realize they may not get Peterson’s ruling on the voting rules overturned. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The November 2016 election isn’t even over and already top state Republicans are advocating for new restrictions to limit voter participation in elections.
One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen Federal Voting Rights Win Leads to Record-Setting Early Vote Numbers After GOP Restrictions Struck Down in Court
One Wisconsin Institute provided the emails to The Associated Press, after The Nation first reported about them. [Wisconsin Gazette]
A ruling in response to a lawsuit filed by One Wisconsin Institute... lifted restrictions to early voting that was enacted by the Wisconsin Legislature. [WTMJ-TV]
The decision in the One Wisconsin Institute v. Nichol case gave all Wisconsin communities the ability to offer additional in-person absentee voting opportunities. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
This week, the liberal-leaning group One Wisconsin Institute released emails obtained through an open records request. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
The emails from Teske were made public by One Wisconsin Institute, a liberal organization working to strike down a handful of Wisconsin voting restrictions. [The Week]
Says an election clerk in Green Bay refused to allow early voting on campus because she "was afraid it would help Democrats," showing "outrageous partisan bias." [Politifact]
The Legislature changed voting laws in 2012 to limit electronic delivery of absentee ballots... That measure was overturned in the One Wisconsin Institute case. [Capital Times]
Ms. Teske also worried that making voting more accessible to students would favor the Democratic party, according to emails obtained by One Wisconsin Institute. [Christian Science Monitor]
The email went to an attorney for the state Elections Commission, and was obtained through a records request by the liberal group One Wisconsin Now [Institute]. [Wisconsin State Journal]
It is time for Green Bay to stop making excuses and start taking simple, concrete steps to make sure every legal voter, regardless of their partisan affiliation.
One Wisconsin Institute, a non-partisan organization that fights for voter rights, is calling for the city to reconsider an early voting site on UW-Green Bay’s Campus. [WBAY-TV]
State Rep. Eric Genrich... first contacted the city on Aug. 23, according to the emails, which were first obtained by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute. [Green Bay Press-Gazette]
The e-mails were provided to The Nation following an open-records request by the One Wisconsin Institute. [The Nation]
“What was most alarming to us was that partisan considerations were made in denying the students access to early voting on campus,” Scot Ross. [WBAY-TV]
Teske complained in the email, which was provided to The Nation as part of an open-records request by the One Wisconsin Institute. [Raw Story]
One Wisconsin Institute obtained emails that show state Rep. Eric Genrich was pressing her in August to open an early voting site on the campus. Teske refused. [WMTV-TV]
One Wisconsin Institute obtained emails that show state Rep. Eric Genrich was pressing her in August to open an early voting site on the campus. Teske refused. [WGBA-TV]
"What did we see in April? Students having to wait in two-hour, two-and-a-half-hour-long lines in order to cast their ballot here," said Scot Ross. [WLUK-TV]
The email was uncovered by the liberal One Wisconsin Institute through a public records request and first reported on Tuesday by The Nation. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
The emails released Tuesday were obtained by the liberal group One Wisconsin Institute, one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit that led to those changes, and first reported by The Nation. [Capital Times]
Progressive communications group One Wisconsin Now obtained the emails, and The Nation magazine first reported them Tuesday. [New York Daily News]
Green Bay’s city clerk refused to set up an early voting site on the UW-Green Bay campus in part because she feared the site would help Democrats. [Associated Press]
Judge Peterson’s late-July decision in the One Wisconsin Institute case opened the door for clerks to establish satellite in-person absentee voting locations. [LawNewz]
A city clerk refused to set up an early-voting site because she didn’t want it to help Democrats, newly released emails from One Wisconsin Institute show. [Salon]
The email correspondence was made public Tuesday by One Wisconsin Institute... The emails were first published by The Nation. [Wisconsin Public Radio]
One Wisconsin [Institute] has pushed for expanding early voting in Green Bay and other cities, including Kenosha and Racine. [Associated Press]