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The presidential election is almost upon us, and you may be wondering how to vote early, when the election is, and what the deadlines are. The presidential election in Wisconsin is Nov. 5, 2024. Find your polling place here. The Wisconsin Election Commission provides these dates: Absentee Voting- Deadlines for the November 5, 2024 General Election All voters in Wisconsin can request an absentee ballot be mailed to them for any reason. Voters must be registered before they can request an absentee ballot.   Voters may request their absentee ballot in writing. To request an absentee ballot on MyVote.wi.gov click here. You must provide a photo ID with your absentee ballot request, more information on photo ID can be found here. October 16, 2024 -  Deadline to  Register by Mail  - Your voter registration form, along with  proof of residence  must be postmarked to your  municipal clerk  no later than October 16, 2024.  Find your Municipal Clerk’s Contact Information here. 

This is an opinion column by Rick Esenberg, the President and General Counsel at the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty. In December, WILL and the National Review Institute will host Rich Lowry in Brookfield. In an era where public discourse is often reduced to sound bites, obnoxious and oftentimes outright false posts on social media, the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty has sought to build more robust and honest dialogue. Here’s the background. A friend of ours at the National Review, Rich Lowry, has faced scrutiny following allegations that he used a racial slur during a discussion on Haitian Migrants in Ohio and the story’s political ramifications in the 2024 election. He didn’t. As John McWhorter, a respected linguist and cultural commentator (who happens to be black), explained, Lowry began to say one word, switched to another, and the resulting vocalization sounded like a slur. Lowry did not intend to denigrate anyone based on race. [caption id="

Facebook even removed a reader's post that said, "Vote for Hovde!" labeling it spam. Facebook is blatantly - and outrageously - interfering in the close Wisconsin race for U.S. Senate by repeatedly removing a Wisconsin Right Now news story that alerts voters about an "America First" candidate on the ballot who was recruited by Democrats in a deceptive attempt to defeat Republican Eric Hovde. https://twitter.com/wisconsin_now/status/1845681862749872569 To boil it down - Democrats are trying to trick conservative voters into choosing the Democratic-recruited candidate to destroy Hovde's candidacy, according to the Associated Press, and now Facebook (Meta) is trying to prevent conservative voters from learning about the scheme. In the most egregious example of Facebook censorship, on Oct. 13, Facebook removed a post sharing the story by WRN reader Dan Dahlke. "Vote for Hovde!" he wrote. Facebook removed the post, declaring that it "go

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