Thursday, June 25: Election security fears, democracy dispute at health co-op, late-term abortion limits, postmaster threatens mail-in ballots, judges in Michigan block election info push, Trump wants $87 billion
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“There's a lot we can prepare for, and scaring people in advance of the election is the worst thing we can do, because we don't need to depress our own turnout.”
– Ann Jacobs, Democratic member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission
Boxes of ballots wait to be counted at Milwaukee’s central count on Election Day 2024. (Photo by Henry Redman/Wisconsin Examiner)
Six years of Republican efforts to reduce faith in the country’s election systems have created a whirlwind of headlines, social media rumors, court rulings and fearmongering and have helped lead three out of every 10 Wisconsin voters to report they aren’t confident this year’s elections will be conducted accurately. Henry Redman interviews election experts on what they expect when fear collides with Wiconsin’s actual election administration system.
When Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin holds its annual meeting for members Thursday evening, a group of patients who are co-op members will seek a vote to undo a recent change in the co-op’s bylaws. It’s the latest development in a conflict that led some members to criticize the co-op management’s response to a union organizing drive, Erik Gunn reports.
In the four years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, access to all abortion in more than a dozen states has dramatically decreased. Meanwhile abortion-rights advocates are divided whether to try to expand abortion access after fetal viability in states where abortion remains legal. Kelcie Moseley-Morris of the Stateline reproductive rights and healthcare team has the story.
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Commentary: Four years after Dobbs, abortion access is up again in Wisconsin | Ruth Conniff
Erika Christensen, left, with her husband, Garin, and her daughter in New York in 2018. Christensen and her husband founded Patient Forward, a nonprofit organization that advocates for later abortion access, after she had to fly to Colorado from New York to terminate a pregnancy with severe complications in 2016. (Photo courtesy of Erika Christensen)
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