April 2nd is only two weeks away. For tens of thousands of us, this important date has been circled on the calendar for several months. The day is a fundamental part of our lives and rests at the core of who we are as Wisconsinites. But more on the Milwaukee Brewers’ home Opening Day later.
April 2nd is also Election Day, and early in-person absentee voting has begun.
Early voting to start in Wisconsin for president and constitutional amendments | Associated Press
Other than the presidential primaries, the only statewide issue on the April 2 ballot is on a pair of constitutional amendments. Both were offered by Republicans in the Legislature and opposed by Democrats. One would make it illegal to accept private grant money to help administer state elections. Another would allow only election officials designated by law to administer elections. If a majority of voters approve, the amendments would be added to the state’s constitution.
What else is on the ballot
Local elections for a wide variety of offices from school board to judge and mayor to city council are on the ballot…
Voting Rules
Rules for voters in the April election are largely unchanged from the 2022 midterm.
Voters who requested absentee ballots by mail should have received them by now. Those are due back by the close of polls on April 2.
Voters who didn’t request a ballot but still wish to vote early can do so in person starting Tuesday. The hours and locations for early, in-person absentee voting vary by community. The last possible day for early in-person voting is March 31, but it could be earlier in some places.
The chaotic attempt to recall Assembly Speaker Robin Vos may have been more than just a sloppy, disorganized mess that came up short. Crimes may have been committed. Serious crimes.
Officials investigating fraudulent signatures on recall petitions targeting Speaker Robin Vos | WISN
The Racine County District Attorney says her office has received more than two dozen complaints of fraudulent signatures targeting Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, as of Monday afternoon.
One of those is Dawn Haggerty, a Racine County resident whose name and address appear on the petition.
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“I did not sign the recall, and I declined signing the recall,” Haggerty said in an interview. “I feel extremely violated. I am a librarian and truth matters to me, and I teach students about using primary documents, and my name is now on a primary document.”
Haggerty, like others, said she contacted both the district attorney’s office and officials with the Wisconsin Elections Commission…
The Racine County District Attorney’s office is continuing to ask residents who believe their name was fraudulently added to contact their office.
Of course the recall organizers are not accepting responsibility. Rather, they’re fully embracing nearly every possible conspiracy theory to explain both their abysmal failure, and any criminal activity that may have occurred on their watch.
Recall Vos organizers shift blame for faulty signatures, recall failures | The Center Square
The people behind the Recall Vos effort continue to say they didn’t collect potentially fraudulent signatures and are hinting that a conspiracy is to blame.
Recall Vos organizers on Monday tried to shift the blame for their apparent failure to get enough signatures to trigger a recall election.
“Recall Vos has faced deliberate obstacles intended to derail our efforts, orchestrated by those adept in manipulative political tactics. This sabotage involved recruiting individuals from outside Wisconsin to introduce fraudulent signatures, attempting to compromise our campaign’s credibility. While the orchestrator remains unidentified, we are dedicated to uncovering the truth in collaboration with law enforcement,” the group said in a statement.
Recall Vos hired its own team to collect the nearly 7,000 signatures they would need to force a recall election. Last week, the Wisconsin Elections Commission said the group was at least 900 signatures short.
The news came just days before the district attorney in Racine County invited people to file identity theft reports if their names showed up on a recall petition they didn’t sign.
C, O, N, G, R, A, T, U, L, A ,T, I, O, N, S are in order for two Wisconsin students.
2 Wisconsin teens are headed to the Scripps National Spelling Bee | WPR
Two eighth graders from Wisconsin are advancing to the Scripps National Spelling Bee after spelling their way to statewide victory this weekend.
Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya of Blessed Sacrament School in Madison came in first at the Badger State Spell Bee on Saturday after correctly spelling “prescience,” a word meaning foreknowledge.
Nethraa Muthupandiyaraja of Forest Park Middle School in Franklin was the runner-up, and will also qualify for nationals.
Those kids have their act together. They are serious about their endeavor. They worked hard, and they succeeded.
In a nutshell, the exact opposite of the recallers…
We’ll be back tomorrow with more Key Reads.
