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In this photo provided by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny, Diny uses a dolly to remove the city's lone drop box from in front of City Hall in Wausau, Wis., on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Doug Diny via AP)

Wisconsin Department of Justice investigating mayor’s removal of ballot drop box

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Wisconsin Democrats, Republicans pick new presidential electors following 2020 fake electors debacle

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In this photo provided by Wausau Mayor Doug Diny, Diny uses a dolly to remove the city's lone drop box from in front of City Hall in Wausau, Wis., on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Doug Diny via AP)

Wisconsin city replaces ballot drop box after mayor carted it away

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Mannika Hopkins talks with her fourth graders on the first day of school at Greenville Elementary in Greenville, Fla. on Aug. 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Kate Payne)

School choice and a history of segregation collide as one Florida county shutters its rural schools

By Kate Payne - Associated Press

FILE - Poll workers sort out early and absentee ballots at the Kenosha Municipal Building on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020, in Kenosha, Wis. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday, July 5, 2024 that officials can place ballot drop boxes around their communities in this fall's elections, overturning its own ruling two years ago limiting their use in the presidential swing state. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court changes course, will allow expanded use of ballot drop boxes this fall

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Wisconsin Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin talks to Dan Gavinski, right, and Chase Slack before riding a Wisconsin Dells Duck during a campaign stop Friday, March 29, 2024, in Wisconsin Dells, Wis. The stop was part of her campaign launch tour in a race against Republican Eric Hovde the could determine who has majority control of the Senate. The Wisconsin Senate race between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde is setting up as one of the most competitive and expensive Senate races in the country. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

In swing-state Wisconsin, Democrat hustles to keep key Senate seat against Trump-backed millionaire

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Former President Donald Trump speaks at a rally, Aug. 5, 2022, in Waukesha, Wis. Wisconsin’s bipartisan elections commission, for a second time Wednesday, Dec. 20, 2023, unanimously rejected a complaint against fake presidential electors who attempted to cast the state’s ballots for Trump in 2020. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin elections commission unanimously rejects complaint against Trump fake electors

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

A person walks on the steps toward the state Capitol on Oct. 24, 2023, in Madison, Wis. The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday in a redistricting case that Democrats hope will result in new, more favorable legislative maps being in place for 2024 that will help them chip away at the large Republican majority. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing arguments on redistricting that could result in new maps for 2024

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

A man walks by the Wisconsin state Capitol, Oct. 10, 2012, in Madison, Wis. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Assembly was scheduled to pass a bill Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023 that would ban Universities of Wisconsin officials from considering race and diversity when awarding state-funded financial aid. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)

Wisconsin Assembly to pass Republican bill banning race, diversity factors in financial aid for UW

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Speaker of the Assembly Robin Vos is flanked by State Rep. Robert Brooks, left, and State Senator Dan Feyen at a news conference, Sept. 18, 2023, at American Family Field in Milwaukee. Republicans in the Wisconsin state Senate proposed tweaks Tuesday, Nov. 7, to their plan to help fund repairs to the Milwaukee Brewers stadium that would scale back the state's contribution by about $35 million and impose a surcharge on tickets to non-baseball events. The Legislature's finance committee was set to vote on the changes Wednesday. Approval could set up a floor vote in the Senate as early as next week. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, file)

Wisconsin GOP proposes ticket fee, smaller state contribution to Brewers stadium repair plan

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources Secretary Adam Payne speaks during the Natural Resources Board meeting, Jan. 25, 2023, at the State Natural Resources Building in Madison, Wis. Payne is resigning next week after spending less than a year leading the agency that has been at the forefront of fights over combatting water pollution and hunting wolves. Payne was appointed by Gov. Evers in December and he began leading the agency in January. Evers’ spokesperson Britt Cudaback said Tuesday, Oct. 24 that the governor would move “expeditiously” to name a replacement. (Ebony Cox/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, file)

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary resigning after 10 months on the job

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Sen. Rob Cowles, from left, Rep. Rob Swearingen, Sen. Eric Wimberger, at podium, and Rep. Jeff Mursau address the media as they introduce a revised version of their bill to combat PFAS contamination on Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. (Todd Richmond/AP Photo)

Wisconsin committee sets up Republican-authored PFAS bill for Senate vote

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

American Family Field is seen Sept. 15, 2023, in Milwaukee.The public will get a chance to sound off on a Republican-authored plan to hand the Milwaukee Brewers more than $614 million to fund repairs at American Family Field. A state Assembly committee is set to hold a hearing on the proposal Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023 at Wisconsin State Fair Park. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Wisconsin hearing considers $614M plan to fund Milwaukee Brewers stadium repairs

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

FILE - A rider poses at the start of the Philly Naked Bike Ride in Philadelphia, Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. Wisconsin Republicans want to make it a crime to be naked in public for any reason, and to bring a child to any event like a naked bike ride, where people don’t have clothes on. Naked bike rides have been gaining popularity in Wisconsin and across the country. (AP Photo/Tassanee Vejpongsa, File)

Wisconsin Republicans want to make it a crime to be naked in public

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Thursday, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. On Monday, Sept. 18, Republicans fighting to preserve Wisconsin legislative electoral maps they drew argued in new legal filings that the key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice must recuse herself from the case despite the dismissal of complaints against her related to comments she made about redistricting. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Wisconsin redistricting fight focuses on the recusal of a key justice as impeachment threat lingers

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press