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In Wisconsin recount, Trump challenges pile up, slow tally By MICHAEL TARMNovember 22, 2020 GMT MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin recount observer Ardis Cerny stretched her neck as far as she could toward a Plexiglas divider separating her from two vote counters, eagle-eyeing them as they scrutinized ballot papers one by one. When one tabulator told the ardent supporter of President Donald Trump she was leaning too far over a yellow line on a Milwaukee conference-hall floor meant to keep observers ...

How Claire Woodall-Vogg got through an unprecedented election. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, works at the presidential recount at the Wisconsin Center convention center in Milwaukee on Nov. 25, 2020. Woodall-Vogg says that when faced with the monumental task of running an election, “When there’s no one else to do it, you just … do it.” Sara Stathas for Wis...

A pandemic. False fraud claims. A misplaced flash drive. How Milwaukee elections chief led high-pressure vote count. Facing intense scrutiny, Claire Woodall-Vogg fought against ‘racially motivated’ attempts to suppress voting in the 2020 election December 15, 2020 4:45 PM Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism Posted: Claire Woodall-Vogg, executive director of the Milwaukee Election Commission, works at the presidential recount at the Wisconsin Center conve...

Before we get to the latest installment of our new action-adventure series, This Week In Sedition, we should pause to salute two angry voices of reason. The first is Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, who came to our notice here in the shebeen when, as one of his first acts as AG, he took a 12-pound sledge to Holy Mother Churchs stonewall that it had erected around the sex criminals in its clergy. On Thursday, he issued a reply to Texas AG Ken Paxton, who may not have noticed that his...