{"id":7137,"date":"2015-02-17T15:23:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7137"},"modified":"2015-02-17T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T21:23:39","slug":"spring-primary-election-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7137","title":{"rendered":"Spring Primary Election Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6773\" src=\"http:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Election_Day_voting12_5570\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Election_Day_voting12_5570-1.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Voters throughout Wisconsin may vote in spring primary elections until 8 pm this evening.<\/p>\n<p>Information on registration and voting in Wisconsin is available <a href=\"https:\/\/myvote.wi.gov\/Home.aspx\">here.<\/a>\u00a0Photo identification is not required to vote.<\/p>\n<p>PROFS is watching a few races today:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Senate District 20<\/strong>\u00a0Three Republicans are vying to replace former State Senator Glenn Grothman who was elected to Congress in November:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Former State Representative Duey Stroebel<\/li>\n<li>Ozaukee County\u00a0Chairman Lee Schlenvogt<\/li>\n<li>Veteran Tiffany Koehler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No Democrat is on the April ballot, so today&#8217;s primary winner is all but guaranteed to win later this spring, increasing the Republican majority to 19-14.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Waukesha County Executive<\/strong>\u00a0State Senator Paul Farrow of Waukesha is one of four Republican candidates. Farrow\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/waukesha\/four-vie-to-replace-dan-vrakas-as-waukesha-county-executive-b99438986z1-291198861.html\">said<\/a> if elected he will remain in the Senate through the state budget process.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Madison Mayor<\/strong>\u00a0Incumbent Mayor Paul Soglin faces four\u00a0challengers today:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>former Dane County Board member Richard Brown<\/li>\n<li>activist Christopher Daly<\/li>\n<li>former alderperson Bridget Maniaci<\/li>\n<li>Alderman\u00a0Scott Resnick<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The top two vote-getters will be on the April ballot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voters throughout Wisconsin may vote in spring primary elections until 8 pm this evening. Information on registration and voting in Wisconsin is available here.\u00a0Photo identification is not required to vote. PROFS is watching a few races today: Senate District 20\u00a0Three&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/?p=7137\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","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-7137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-the-state","tag-elections","tag-legislature","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137","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=7137"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7137\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profs.wisc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}