Alexander Shur

@AlexanderShur

Covering Wisconsin voting rights (and wrongs) for @VotebeatUS | Past: Wisconsin politics @WiStateJournal

Madison, WI

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Alexander Shur
@AlexanderShur
Aug 20
Over the last decade, there has been a national movement away from transmitting election results via modem. But modems remain widespread in WI, sometimes — as we saw on Election Day — leading to problems. Story below:
Alexander Shur
@AlexanderShur
Aug 17
In Green Bay's latest memo to WEC saying how it'll prevent duplicate ballots, officials seem to take exception to WEC's treatment "Wisconsin’s elections staff also are entitled to a degree of grace and to guidance and criticism that is offered in good faith," city attorney says
Alexander Shur
@AlexanderShur
Aug 13
They had five different ways to catch this, too, because this happened at five different tabulators.
A.J. Bayatpour
@AJBayatpour
Aug 13
SCOOP: Our cameras caught the moment Milwaukee elections staff screwed up. While the city Election Commission says there was no way to see the wrong info was on the USB sticks bc it's encrypted, it sure looks like someone could've caught what they were mistakenly exporting...
Alexander Shur
@AlexanderShur
Aug 12
State legislators are discussing bringing Milwaukee election officials in for an informational hearing to outline what went wrong this election and how to prevent errors in November "It's a nightmare waiting to happen if they're not on top of their shit," Rep. Scott Krug told me
Alexander Shur
@AlexanderShur
Aug 12
NEW: Here's my full report on what went wrong in Milwaukee last night, and how it overshadowed city plans to show the public how it was more efficiently and transparently processing absentee ballots on Election Day. Link below: