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Elon Musk plans Wisconsin visit to give $2M to 2 people ahead of state Supreme Court race

Billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll visit Wisconsin to personally give $2 million to two people ahead of the state Supreme Court election, despite a state law that explicitly bans giving people anything of value in exchange for voting. Wisconsin Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court Friday seeking to stop the event.

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Debates over Wisconsin voter ID law go back years. What does the evidence show?

Voters can't escape ads for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1, but the same election will also decide whether a voter ID requirement should be enshrined in the state constitution.Β We know more now about how the requirement impacts voting than we did when it was passed as a law 14 years ago.

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Republicans bill to reset student testing benchmarks headed to governor’s desk

Republicans sent a bill to the governor's desk Tuesday that would reset the way the state measures standardized test scores after Wisconsin's Department of Public Instruction overhauled the system last year. Gov. Tony Evers has said he will "probably veto" the plan.

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