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FILE - Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe participates in an election forum, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Ann Arbor, Mich. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court hearing case targeting swing state’s top elections administrator

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Cornel West speaks at a campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in Detroit, March 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)

Cornel West survives Democratic challenge in Wisconsin, will remain on state’s presidential ballot

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein waits to speak at a board of elections meeting at City Hall, in Philadelphia, Oct. 2, 2019. Wisconsin elections officials dismissed a Democratic National Committee employee's demands Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, to keep the Green Party's presidential candidate off the ballot in the key swing state. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Wisconsin election officials keep Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on ballot

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

FILE - The entrance to the Wisconsin Supreme Court chambers is seen in the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. March 14, 2024. A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday asked for arguments within two days related to a question over what legislative boundaries should be in place for a potential recall election organized by supporters of former President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond, File)

Wisconsin Supreme Court prepares to weigh in on recall election question

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Elections Commission member Robert Spindell speaks during a meeting, Nov. 2, 2023 in Madison, Wis. The Republican member of the Wisconsin Elections Commission who has faced calls to resign after falsely declaring that former President Donald Trump won the state even though he lost claimed Thursday, Feb. 8, 2024 that "no white Republican that has done more for the Black community than me.” (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, file)

Wisconsin elections official claims he’s done more for Black community than any White Republican

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

FILE - Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe poses for a photograph outside the Wisconsin Capitol building, Aug. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. On Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023, Chris Kapenga, the Republican president of the Wisconsin Senate, called on the Assembly to impeach Wolfe, the presidential battleground state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has remained in office while Democrats fight in court against a Senate vote to fire her. (Ruthie Hauge/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Top Wisconsin Senate Republican calls on Assembly to impeach state’s top elections official

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

FILE - Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe poses for a photograph outside the Wisconsin Capitol building, Aug. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate is set to vote Thursday, Sept. 14, 2023, on firing the battleground state's top elections official — a move that was denounced by Democrats and is expected to draw a legal battle. (Ruthie Hauge/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

GOP-led Wisconsin Senate votes to fire nonpartisan official targeted by 2020 election skeptics

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe poses for a photograph outside the Wisconsin Capitol building, Aug. 31, 2020, in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's top elections official said she will not testify next week at a Senate committee hearing on her reappointment, leaning on a letter from the state attorney general that says lawmakers have no authority to force a vote on firing her. (Ruthie Hauge/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Wisconsin elections head won’t testify at reappointment hearing that state AG says is improper

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Voters cast their ballots at a school in the midterm election Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022, in Milwaukee. Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin and a statewide commission are in a standoff to determine who will oversee elections next year in one of the most important presidential battleground states. The conflict over reappointing the nonpartisan election director is rooted in the lies surrounding the last presidential election. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, File)

Battle over Wisconsin’s top elections official could have ripple effects for 2024

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, poses outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, on Aug. 31, 2020. Wolfe on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, broke silence on her uncertain future leading the statewide elections commission, calling for stability ahead of the 2024 presidential election and asking local election officials to continue fighting against election lies. (Ruthie Hauge/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Top Wisconsin election official facing replacement calls for stability, defends record

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe, poses outside of the Wisconsin State Capitol Building, on Aug. 31, 2020. Wisconsin's top elections official is nearing the end of her term, and uncertainty looms over who will hold the position through the 2024 presidential election. Wolfe is the current, nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission. Republicans who control the state Legislature could have a chance to ouster her and pick someone new to oversee elections in the critical battleground state. (Ruthie Hauge//Wisconsin State Journal via AP, file)

Wisconsin’s top elections official for 2024 uncertain as incumbent’s term nears end

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2020, photo, poll workers sort out early and absentee ballots at the Kenosha Municipal building on Election Day, in Kenosha, Wis. Election officials in Wisconsin hope to revive plans for a new division intended to work with the public and deal with an onslaught of records requests and complaints. The Legislature's Republican-controlled budget-writing committee killed the plan on May 2, 2023, along with more than 500 proposals from Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) **FILE**

Wisconsin election officials want to revive ‘critical’ plan

By Harm Venhuizen - Associated Press

In this image made from video of WisconsinEye feed, Commissioner Robert Spindell Jr. speaks during a virtual Wisconsin Elections Commission meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023. A Wisconsin judge on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023, dismissed an open records complaint against a Republican Wisconsin Elections Commission member who served as a fake elector for former President Donald Trump. Allegations that the elections commission violated the state open records law will go forward, but claims made against Commissioner Robert Spindell were dismissed by Dane County Circuit Judge Robert Frost. (WisconsinEye via AP)

Wisconsin judge dismisses complaint against GOP fake elector

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

Voters wait in line outside a polling center on Election Day, in Kenosha, Wis. in this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo. Wisconsin Republicans are working to discredit the bipartisan system they created to run elections in the state after President Joe Biden narrowly won last year's presidential race, making the political battleground state the latest front in the national push by the GOP to exert more control over elections. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

GOP targets Wisconsin elections system, nonpartisan director

By Scott Bauer - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, voters mark their ballots on Election Day in Kenosha, Wis. The push for ranked-choice voting in Wisconsin gained steam on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021, with the introduction of a bipartisan bill in the state Legislature, a move backed by a Republican congressman and a recently formed coalition of civic and business leaders. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Wisconsin: Nearly 30 referred to prosecutors for 2020 voter fraud

By Todd Richmond - Associated Press

Businessman sues to end drop boxes, filling in ballots

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No voters targeted for purge voted in Wisconsin in 2020

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2020, file photo, Dane County Clerk Scott McDonell, seated, converses with election workers and legal representatives from the Joe Biden and Donald Trump presidential campaigns as a recount of the 2020 presidential election begins at the Monona Terrace convention center in Madison, Wis. President Trump filed a lawsuit Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, in Wisconsin, seeking to disqualify hundreds of thousands of ballots in a longshot attempt to overturn Democrat Joe Biden's win in the battleground state he lost by nearly 20,700 votes. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)

Trump files lawsuit challenging Wisconsin election results

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 3, 2020 file photo, workers count Milwaukee County ballots on Election Day at Central Count in Milwaukee. President Donald Trump's campaign has paid $3 million for a recount of two heavily Democratic Wisconsin counties, saying Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020, that they were the site of the &quot;worst irregularities&quot; although no evidence of wrongdoing has been presented and state elections officials have said there was none. (AP Photo/Morry Gash File)

Wisconsin issues recount order in 2 counties as Trump wanted

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press