(18 Mar 2025)
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Eau Claire, Wisconsin – 18 March 2025
1. Early voting sign
2. American flag
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Lewis Titus, Eau Claire voter:
“I believe in the sanctity of life and I believe that Brad Schimel was the one that’s going to be able to carry that on.”
4. Voter filling out form
5. Election map
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Oliver, Eau Claire voter:
“I don’t usually vote on an issue, but I did this time for Susan Crawford, on abortion.”
7. People voting
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Oliver, Eau Claire voter:
“I don’t think that we should be governed by a law that was passed before the Civil War. And I don’t think I have the right to put myself into somebody else’s shoes when making those kinds of decisions of abortion rights. I just feel that we need to, in Wisconsin, have the laws reflect the modern times.”
9. People voting
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sally Huffey, Eau Claire voter:
“Brad Schimel. I voted for his values.”
11. Voter talking to election worker
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sally Huffey, Eau Claire voter:
“You know the saying that there are mountains you’ll die on? This is kind of one for us.”
13. People voting
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sally Huffey, Eau Claire voter:
“So we have a conservative, biblical worldview on everything. That’s how we feel the greatest success comes from, even through the Constitution. I think that’s what he stands for.”
15. People voting
16. I voted stickers
17. SOUNDBITE (English) James Stamper, Eau Claire voter:
“Elections are important, so are the Second Amendment rights, freedom of speech, anything in the First Amendment, freedom of religion. I would like a Supreme Court Justice that’s willing to stand up against another Evers-like shutdown of churches that happened during COVID, and I think Schimel would do that, and I don’t think his opponent would.”
18. Ballot drop box
STORYLINE:
Wisconsin voters began to cast their ballots Tuesday in a pivotal state Supreme Court race that will determine whether liberals keep their slim majority on the highest court in a crucial presidential battleground.
The first day of early voting, two weeks before the April 1 election between Republican-backed Brad Schimel and Democratic-supported Susan Crawford, will test how energized each side’s voters are in the hotly contested race.
The election, which has drawn the attention of President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk and attracted tens of millions of dollars in spending, is seen as a referendum on how voters are responding to the first months of Trump’s Republican presidency.
It comes after the Democratic-backed candidate won in 2023 and flipped control of the state Supreme Court to liberals for the first time in 15 years. Since then, the court has thrown out Republican-drawn legislative maps, which led to Democratic gains in the November election, and reinstated absentee-ballot drop boxes. It’s heard a case challenging an 1849 law banning abortions in the state but has yet to issue its ruling. Cases related to the strength of public sector unions, voting rules and congressional district boundaries are likely to lie ahead.
“I don’t usually vote on an issue, but I did this time for Susan Crawford on abortion,” said 78-year-old Eau Claire resident and retired college teacher Linda Oliver. “I don’t think we should be governed by a law that was passed before the Civil War," she said.
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