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Recent News About Wisconsin State Senate
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Legislators send bill to 'guarantee confidence in the election' to Evers' desk
Since the 2020 elections, clerks and poll workers have come under scrutiny as calls for recounts with observers have grown and those recounts began.
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Agard: ‘It’s beyond time’ to raise the minimum wage in Wisconsin
Sen. Melissa Agard is among proponents of raising Wisconsin’s minimum wage.
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Bill to 'increase transparency in the election process' heads to Evers' desk
Late last month, the Wisconsin Legislature sent a bill to the desk of Gov. Tony Evers that will change how municipal clerks handle absentee ballots that have issues.
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Darling says Wisconsin voter integrity measure ensures 'ballots belong to the voter'
The Wisconsin Legislature this week sent Gov. Tony Evers a measure that will ban municipal clerks from filling out blank sections or correcting defects on absentee ballots, known as curing ballots.
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Wisconsin Senate passes voting ID bill 'for absentee voting that people can trust'
The Wisconsin State Senate has passed a new bill that will require absentee voters to verify their identity in order to vote.
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Absentee ballot bill fails, Wisconsin poll watcher believes more reform needed
A Senate bill meant to address absentee ballots failed in a Senate committee earlier this month and is now in the Senate Organization committee.
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'We have to take into consideration unintended consequences': Bernier votes against absentee voting security legislation
The Wisconsin Senate Elections Committee failed to pass an election security bill last month after its chairwoman, Republican Sen. Kathy Bernier of Lake Hallie joined Democrats in voting against it.
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Bill that would require 'indefinitely confined voters' to state their inability to vote in person fails before committee
Wisconsin Sen. Kathy Bernier (R), and chairwoman of Committee on Elections, Election Process Reform and Ethics, voted on the side of Democrats, causing Senate Bill 206 to fail among the committee.
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Wisconsin Senate bill seeks to prohibit ballot corrections by clerks
Wisconsin is debating a new voting law that will prohibit municipal clerks from filling out blank information or correcting information on absentee ballots received.
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Nass: 'No more delays and no more excuses' on election reform bills
Some of the eight election reform bills bottled up in a Wisconsin Senate committee could see action as early as Friday after Sen. Stephen Nass (R-Whitewater) Wednesday blasted the chair of the committee for again delaying the release of the bills.
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Wisconsin Senate votes to ban state elections officials from accepting private funds
Alarmed by the influence of millions in private dollars in the administration of the November 2020 elections, the Wisconsin Senate on Wednesday approved a measure that bans state officials from accepting private funds.
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Senate Bill 203 introduced to combat absentee ballot voter fraud
To combat absentee ballot fraud, the most common type of voter fraud, according to The Hill, a bill has been introduced to urging the Wisconsin Elections Commission to outlaw the process by which outside groups, typically partisan, help to send or return large numbers of absentee ballots.
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Evers creates new statewide mask mandate after previous one is repealed
Gov. Tony Evers issued a new statewide mask mandate on Thursday after the state's legislature voted to repeal his previous mandate.