Tuesday, Nov. 3: Time to vote, a text message impersonation, Trump’s election control campaign hits multiple firewalls, regents name UW leader, unproven pregnancy avoidance efforts, low-income housing shortage, Trump revisits Reflecting Pool
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“What he did was dishonest and lacks integrity, and he’s talking about election integrity. I don’t know how we can trust him to run honest elections when he behaves like this in a campaign.”
– Pete Karas, Green Party candidate for secretary of state, who filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission charging Republican candidate Jay Schroeder impersonated Karas with a text message aimed at drawing away voters from Democrat JoCasta Zamarripa.
The polling place at Village on Park on Madison's South side in 2023. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner)
At long last, polls are open Tuesday in Wisconsin’s midterm elections. They opened at 7 a.m. and will remain open until 8 p.m. Anyone still in line when polls close should remain in line and will still be able to vote, Henry Redman reports. For more information on today’s elections, consult our Voter Guide, and for the latest across the country, see the States Newsroom elections page.
Pete Karas, the Green Party candidate in the race for Wisconsin secretary of state, filed a complaint Monday against Republican candidate Jay Schroeder, charging that Schroeder’s campaign impersonated Karas in text messages sent to voters over the weekend. Schroeder is running to abolish the Wisconsin Elections Commission and return election oversight to the secretary of state’s office. Erik Gunn reports on the incident.
Late Monday afternoon the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to freeze California’s vote-counting, the most recent development in one of the biggest stress tests of the modern era faced by American democracy. Jonathan Shorman reports on the decision, and on President Donald Trump’s sprawling campaign for power over elections that has been met with a firewall of judges, state election workers and voting rights leaders heading into Election Day.
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President Donald Trump rallied with Iowa Republicans at the Five Flags Center in Dubuque on Nov. 1, 2026, two days before Election Day. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch)
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