{"id":3755,"date":"2012-08-09T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3755"},"modified":"2012-08-09T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:51:00","slug":"primary-election-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3755","title":{"rendered":"Primary Election August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin partisan primaries will be held next Tuesday, August 14. Polls are open statewide from 7 am to 8 pm.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Absentee voting<\/strong> Voters in Wisconsin may vote by absentee ballot at at a municipal clerk&#8217;s office until 5 pm or the end of business on the Friday before an election (Friday, August 10 for the August 14 primary). More information on absentee balloting is available <a href=\"http:\/\/gab.wi.gov\/elections-voting\/voters\/absentee\">here<\/a>. Madison voters may vote in the City Clerk&#8217;s office (Room 103, 210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.) from 8:15 am to 4:30 pm on Thursday, August 9 and from 8:15 am to 6:30 pm on Friday, August 10. More information is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofmadison.com\/clerk\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Voters may not cross party lines when voting in a partisan primary. The ballot includes several important races:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>United States Senate<\/strong> &#8212; Four Republicans are competing to oppose Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tammybaldwin.com\/splash\/\">Tammy Baldwin<\/a> in November: Assembly Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/fitzgeraldforwisconsin.com\/\">Jeff Fitzgerald<\/a>, Madison businessman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericforsenate.com\/\">Eric Hovde<\/a>, businessman and former congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/neumann2012.com\/\">Mark Neumann<\/a>, and former governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tommyforwisconsin.com\/\">Tommy Thompson<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second Congressional District<\/strong> &#8212; Four Democrats are on the ballot to oppose Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/chadleeforcongress.com\/\">Chad Lee<\/a> in November: security consultant <a href=\"http:\/\/hall4congress.com\/\">Dennis Hall<\/a>, State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/pocanforcongress.com\/\">Mark Pocan<\/a>, State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keldaforcongress.com\/\">Kelda Roys<\/a>, and attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silvermanforcongress.com\/\">Matt Silverman<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dane County Clerk<\/strong> &#8212; Four Democrats are on the ballot: Sun Prairie City Clerk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianefordanecountyclerk.com\/\">Dianne Hermann-Brown<\/a>, Dane County Board Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottmcdonell.com\/\">Scott McDonnell<\/a>, City of Madison Administrative Support Clerk <a href=\"http:\/\/mike4daneclerk.com\/\">Mike Quieto<\/a>, and former Madison alderman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santiagorosascountyclerk.com\/\">Santiago Rosas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wisconsin Assembly<\/strong> &#8212; Redistricting has changed legislative districts throughout the state. A map of Dane County districts is <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.wisconsin.gov\/ltsb\/redistricting\/Bills\/asm148_dane.pdf\">here<\/a>. Contested races include the 47th District where attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandahall47.com\/\">Amanda Hall<\/a> and former Monona mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robbkahl.com\/\">Robb Kahl<\/a> will be on the ballot, the 78th District where State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brett4us.org\/\">Brett Hulsey <\/a>will be challenged by quality assurance analyst <a href=\"http:\/\/sayfisher.com\/\">Christopher Fisher<\/a>, the 79th District where Middleton School Board president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ellenforassembly.com\/\">Ellen Lindgren<\/a> and Dane County Supervisor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianne4assembly.com\/\">Dianne Hesselbein<\/a> will meet, and the 80th District where Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/sondypoperoberts.com\/\">Sondy Pope-Roberts<\/a> will be challenged by former Fitchburg City Council member <a href=\"http:\/\/uphoff4assembly.com\/\">Charles Uphoff<\/a> and former State Representative and Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joewineke.com\/\">Joe Wineke<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin partisan primaries will be held next Tuesday, August 14. Polls are open statewide from 7 am to 8 pm. Absentee voting Voters in Wisconsin may vote by absentee ballot at at a municipal clerk&#8217;s office until 5 pm or&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=3755\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[20,18],"class_list":["post-3755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-legislature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3765,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions\/3765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}