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Election managers in Madison, however, are not looking to use ballot drop boxes. Wisconsin’s two largest cities are taking two different approaches to ballot drop boxes for the spring elections. Milwaukee’s Elections Commission on Tuesday announced it will continue to use drop boxes, despite a ban endorsed by the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Milwaukee Election Commission Director Claire Woodall-Vogg told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that adding election workers at the Milwaukee drop boxes should be enough to work around the court’s ban. "Our belief is that we are in full compliance under the order,” she told the paper. A Waukesha County judge ruled in January that Wisconsin election law allows voters just two ways to vote, in-person or through the mail. The judge said the ballot drop boxes, while locked, were not under 24-hour surveillance. Woodall-Vogg said Milwaukee also plans to use drive-up voting locations to make it easier for people to vote. Election manage...

WMC’s survey states that 88% of businesses said there would be disruptions to their operations and 84% said a lack of testing supplies for the required weekly tests would make it nearly impossible to test all non-vaccinated employees. Wisconsin’s largest business group says almost every employer in the state expects to see some workers quit if they are forced to get the coronavirus vaccine. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce said a new survey of employers shows that 88% of Wisconsin businesses expect to lose workers if President Joe Biden’s private sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate is put into effect. “If enacted, most employers would not be able to comply with the rigorous requirements and, to make matters worse, workers would end up walking off the job,” WMC’s Kurt Bauer said. “For Wisconsin businesses, not only is this mandate unlawful, it is unworkable.” Bauer said WMC asked 100 businesses across the state about the president’s proposed mandate, and 88 of them said it wo...

WMC’s survey states that 88% of businesses said there would be disruptions to their operations and 84% said a lack of testing supplies for the required weekly tests would make it nearly impossible to test all non-vaccinated employees. Wisconsin’s largest business group says almost every employer in the state expects to see some workers quit if they are forced to get the coronavirus vaccine. Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce said a new survey of employers shows that 88% of Wisconsin businesses expect to lose workers if President Joe Biden’s private sector COVID-19 vaccine mandate is put into effect. “If enacted, most employers would not be able to comply with the rigorous requirements and, to make matters worse, workers would end up walking off the job,” WMC’s Kurt Bauer said. “For Wisconsin businesses, not only is this mandate unlawful, it is unworkable.” Bauer said WMC asked 100 businesses across the state about the president’s proposed mandate, and 88 of them said it wo...