Frederica Freyberg:

This week, the state Assembly passed a slate of election-related bills that will head to the governor’s desk and are likely to be vetoed. The GOP-introduced bills would require indefinitely-confined voters submit photo IDs to vote and would make most absentee voters reapply each election to receive a ballot. The package drew criticism from Democrats who say it makes it harder to vote.

Mark Spreitzer:

Since November 2020, Republicans have been perpetuating conspiracy theories that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, leading to armed insurrectionists storming the nation’s Capitol. Now they want to use the doubts that they themselves created as the basis for changing state election law.

Robin Vos:

The goal is to make sure at the end of the day that every single person has the chance to vote, but that we guarantee the confidence in the election, which has been severely undermined by the actions of a few over the course of the last election cycle hopefully are a thing of the past.

Frederica Freyberg:

Changing the rules on how people vote has become a top priority for Republicans in Wisconsin and across the country. They say their objective is to ensure the integrity of the vote. Opponents call it voter suppression.