Alexander Shur

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

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

“anything alleging I knew what my tattoo was”

[Igor Bobic @igorbobic]

Platner denies latest allegations to @chrislhayes:

"There are some allegations in this piece are simply not ture. Anything alleging physicality, anything alleging I knew what my tattoo was, these are the statements of somebody politically motivated...that is not true."

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

Madison former deputy clerk removed from election tasks after misplacing 23 Supreme Court race ballots

https://t.co/F64j3Nvl2F

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

The Madison former deputy clerk who took some blame for the 23 late-arriving ballots in April and is being sued for disenfranchising 200 voters in 2024 has been reassigned within the clerk's office to non-election tasks

LINK:

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

I believe this is the earliest point in a men's slam in the open era that no slam winners remain in the draw

[Jon Wertheim @jon_wertheim]

Back-to-back five sets wins for Fonseca, one against the GOAT? in heat? Closing with three straight aces? ….any questions about durability have been answered.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

Sonny Rollins was the last surviving musician from “A Great Day in Harlem”, the iconic 1958 photograph by Art Kane that brought together dozens of jazz legends in Harlem.

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

LINK: Lawsuit seeks to require Wisconsin clerks to let voters fix problems with their absentee ballots

https://t.co/qTg9hQ3erg

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

The League of Women Voters of Wisconsin recently sued to require every clerk to give voters an opportunity to fix mistakes on their absentee envelopes.

Currently clerks can choose whether to reach out to affected voters. Here's what clerks & experts say about the league's suit:

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

A warm welcome to Dion! Please get in touch with him for all things elections.

[Dion Nissenbaum @DionNissenbaum]

Professional news: I have started a new role as the first senior national reporter covering voting rights and elections issues for @VotebeatUS Got ideas, tips, suggestions? Please be in touch. I am here, on email at [email protected] and on Signal at @DionNissenbaum.2025

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

More on Claire Woodall:

https://t.co/7MyRDusOWV

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

Not necessarily linked but: Claire Woodall, the election chief for the 2020 election, forgot one of the 12 flash drives containing Milwaukee's vote totals at central count.

A cop ended up delivering the last one to the county. It's since been a source of a lot of conspiracies.

[Matt Smith @mattsmith_news]

New: The FBI is looking to question multiple Milwaukee Police Department officers in relation to the 2020 election

Agents are looking to talk to officers who were at the city's central count location, a source said. They've been told they are not the target of an investigation

[Carter Walker @ByCarterWalker]

Last week, Pennsylvania State Supreme Court Justice David Wecht said he was leaving the Democratic Party because of “hateful anti-Jewish invective and actions.”

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

A letter that @MayorMKE sent Rep. Tom Tiffany after the latter cast doubt -- again -- on the 2020 election:

He calls the FBI probe in Milwaukee "plainly a weaponization of the justice system."

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

Very grateful to have won the Center for Integrity In News Reporting’s digital award for my @VotebeatUS series on the nearly 200 ballots that went missing in Madison in the 2024 prez election. Would not be here — at all, not even close - without my great editors.

[Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot]

Democratic Arizona AG Kris Mayes is suing to oust a Republican election official based on a pretty questionable interpretation of state law: https://t.co/QaNgOKzg7E

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

The FBI is contacting Wisconsin election officials. Here’s what we know.

https://t.co/we90v3dyTZ

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

I spoke with a former Milwaukee election official who also got contacted by the FBI, and a couple election experts on where the FBI probe could be going -- and what it means for voters.

LINK:

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

Story here:
https://t.co/LVAscB89YP

[Alexander Shur @AlexanderShur]

NEW: A Dane County judge has overturned the WEC order not to count the 23 late-arriving absentee ballots in the latest election, referencing past precedent that properly cast votes shouldn't be tossed over election official errors.

He ordered Madison's drawdown to be reversed.

[Hope Karnopp @hopekarnopp]

A growing number of local govs in Wisconsin are disabling all comments on their city-managed Facebook pages, including Shorewood, Green Bay and Eau Claire.

A First Amendment expert weighs in on the legality of that step:
https://t.co/6LdNd6Dq7H

[Stephen Caruso @StephenJ_Caruso]

Inbox: Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht, first elected as a Democrat in 2015 and retained last year, says in a statement he is "no longer registered within any political party," because "acquiescence to Jew-hatred is now disturbingly common" in the Democratic Party.