Alex Burness

3 weeks ago | reflector.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness

The biggest name in Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election belonged to neither of its candidates, but to Elon Musk, who spent extravagantly on the race in an effort to further cement Republican control of American democracy.

3 weeks ago | dailyadvance.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness

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3 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness

Washington, DC (Bolts)The biggest name in Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election belonged to neither of its candidates, but to Elon Musk, who spent extravagantly on the race in an effort to further cement Republican control of American democracy. In the final stretch of her race to join the court, Susan Crawford stumped against Musk, calling him "my opponent," even as she officially faced Brad Schimel, the state's former Republican attorney general and an outspoken ally to President Trump.

3 weeks ago | denvergazette.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness

Washington, DC (Bolts)T.R. Edwards grew up with stories from his grandmother Kathleen about her struggle to vote as a Black woman in Wisconsin: A child of the Jim Crow south, she'd moved to Madison in the 1970s, and then to Milwaukee, with no birth certificate, which made it hard to prove her identity for government purposes, including voter registration. It took her more than 20 years to finally resolve the matter and, in 1992, she became the first person in her family to vote.

1 month ago | thefacts.com | Daniel Nichanian |Alex Burness

Washington, DC (Bolts)Frustrated by slowing mail delivery, particularly in rural areas, the Kansas legislature in 2017 passed a law to let elections officials count mail ballots that arrived after Election Day, for up to three extra days, so long as the ballots were postmarked before polls closed.