Andrew Bahl and Miller Jozwiak

Counties across the state are slated to finish a recount of the state’s general election results by next week, the state Elections Commission said Monday.

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STATE NEWS

Counties slated to finish recount by deadline

By Andrew Bahl and Miller Jozwiak | Dec. 5, 2016

All counties are on track to report their recount results by the federally mandated Dec. 13 deadline, the state said Monday. Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell also released a statement earlier in the day detailing the progress of the recount in Dane County. “We are one-third of the way through the number of days we have to conduct the recount and we are slightly ahead of schedule with over 100,000 ballots counted to date,” McDonell said.

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STATE NEWS

Voter registration declines with election law changes

By Andrew Bahl and Miller Jozwiak | Jun. 9, 2016

Garret Payne was having a bad day. A junior at UW-Madison, Payne dutifully went to the polls on Wisconsin’s April 5 primary only to be told that his Illinois driver’s license was not enough for him to vote. An annoyed Payne was forced to trek to Union South to get a voting ID but he said he would not be deterred by the state’s voter ID law, signed into law in 2011 and put into place in 2016 after various legal challenges.

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CITY NEWS

Soglin squares off with state Republicans over Oscar Meyer

By Andrew Bahl and Miller Jozwiak | Mar. 10, 2016

City, county and state officials are locked in a battle over whether more should have been done to prevent the closing of Madison’s Oscar Mayer plant last year. Legislative Democrats and city officials have pointed the finger at the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation and the state’s chamber of commerce, saying both entities knew Kraft-Heinz was considering shuttering the east Madison facility but didn’t do enough to keep the company in the Badger State. But Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, countered Tuesday by announcing that he was submitting open records requests to determine if Madison Mayor Paul Soglin and Dane County Executive Joe Parisi could have prevented Oscar Mayer’s departure. "If the Mayor did have advance knowledge of changes at the Madison location as he has suggested, the city’s residents deserve an explanation as to why no action was taken,” Fitzgerald said in the statement. “His misguided attempts to shift blame onto WEDC or other state business groups are no more than a smokescreen to disguise his office’s culpability.” Fitzgerald added that since the Oscar Mayer facility was located in Madison, the closure happened “under Mayor Soglin’s watch.” Soglin held a press conference Thursday in which he claimed the Walker administration has caused Wisconsin’s economic performance to lag.

Counties slated to finish recount by deadline

Voter registration declines with election law changes

Soglin squares off with state Republicans over Oscar Meyer

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