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Congress Must Include Local News Funding in Next COVID-19 Stimulus
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USA Today / Gannett: ‘Warning sign:’ Wisconsin’s messy primary shows struggles states could face in November election
“Wisconsin’s absentee ballot rules are no doubt disenfranchising voters,” Heck said.
Heck said the governor and Legislature have seven months to correct the problem to “avoid this kind of chaos” for the November general election.
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NPR: Long Lines, Masks And Plexiglas Barriers Greet Wisconsin Voters At Polls
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President Trump’s Removal of Inspector General Glenn Fine Is An Affront To Transparency & Accountability
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Washington Post: Wisconsin governor moves to suspend in-person voting in Tuesday’s elections amid coronavirus fears, drawing GOP court challenge
For the first time in nearly 25 years in his role, he is not encouraging people to vote in person, which “flies in the face of everything I believe in.”
“It’s insanity. It’s just insanity,” an emotional Heck said midday Monday, before the governor’s order, describing the ways people could contract coronavirus at a...
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Politico: ‘It is terrifying’: Wisconsin leaders warn of coronavirus disaster with Tuesday’s vote
"The upcoming election is hurtling toward the state of Wisconsin like some unstoppable meteor," said Heck. "It is terrifying, because nobody knows what's going to happen."
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U.S. News & World Report: Can Democracy Survive Coronavirus?
"Even as we are worried about this public health threat, we need to remember that it can't distract us from the ways we can fight it," Hobert-Flynn says. "That means we have...
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Washington Post: Wisconsin goes it alone, holding elections next week amid fears of infection and voting chaos
“They have cynically calculated that lower turnout will help the conservative candidate,” said Jay Heck, executive director of Common Cause in Wisconsin.
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Santa Fe New Mexican: Report: Oil and gas interests spent $11.5M in New Mexico politics in recent years
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Newsweek: 16 STATES RESTRICT ACCESS TO VOTING BY MAIL—HOW THAT COULD CHANGE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC
"This is a time for our country to be united to protect each other as we face COVID-19, and that includes rethinking the way we manage our elections in many states," Karen Hobert Flynn, the nonprofit's president, said in a press release.
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ABC News: New York presidential primary postponed amid record numbers of coronavirus cases
“We don't have the infrastructure in place to do it quite frankly, so that's anything from having enough paper to print all the ballots, to making sure that we have prepaid postage, to make sure folks can return their ballot. It's a lot of smaller logistical decisions and...
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Trump Attempt to Bypass Stimulus Package Oversight is a Corrupt Power Grab and Congress Must Fight It