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Rural Wisconsin is vulnerable to COVID-19, and emergency medical services are turning to creative solutions to find protective gear to keep their responders virus-free.
Although voting during the coronavirus pandemic created challenges, community leaders say living in Milwaukee has taught them to be ready for any crisis.
Wisconsin Watch photographer Coburn Dukehart and reporter Lauren Fuhrmann documented scenes from Door County to Milwaukee during the election on April 7.
Despite the risks to their own health, these Milwaukee voters showed up at the polls, and waited, sometimes for hours, to participate in our democracy.
Fox Point officials say scores of ballots did not get to voters after the post office repeatedly returned them. The U.S. Postal Service is investigating.
Wisconsin’s election during the coronavirus pandemic was marked by lines of voters stretching for blocks on Tuesday in Milwaukee and frustration that some residents — many wearing face masks or respirators — were forced to choose between risking their health and relinquishing their right to vote.
For possibly thousands of Wisconsin voters who requested absentee ballots that never came, a U.S. Supreme Court decision meant voting in person — or not at all.
Disenfranchisement concerns swirl as Wisconsin forges ahead with a high-stakes election despite public health experts’ calls to slow the virus by staying home.
Veteran poll inspector Brook Soltvedt says Madison has done everything it can to keep voters safe, but in-person voting is bound to make some people sick.
Froedtert Hospital and Bellin Health drop medical debt suits after a WPR/Wisconsin Watch investigation revealed several Wisconsin hospitals sued patients during the pandemic.
Gov. Tony Evers calls the Legislature into special session Saturday, pushing for a delay and voting by mail; GOP leader says the majority will not go along.
Lynn Danielson, a retired Cap Times editorial page editor, says the pandemic forced her to make the hard decision not to work at her local polling place on Tuesday.