Evers also vetoed AB 885, which Republican legislators said would allow students to sue University of Wisconsin System and Wisconsin Technical College System employees for violating students’ First Amendment rights. UW-Madison in a statement said the measure was “unnecessary and could … Continue reading
Keuler said the ASM chair, ASM vice chair and Legislative Affairs chair made the selection without creating an application or sending outreach emails, and there was no transparency on process for how they chose their delegates. The result was a … Continue reading
Patrick Remington, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Preventive Medicine Residency Program, said doctors who do not prescribe ivermectin to COVID-19 patients are upholding the Hippocratic Oath to do no harm to patients by making decisions according to the consensus of … Continue reading
Quotes Barry Burden, director of the Election Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.
Ballot includes referendum question on $15 per hour minimum wage for student workers
These elections decide the 33 student representatives that make up the Associated Students of Madison (ASM) student council. The council serves as the official student voice on critical issues that affect UW-Madison students such as plastic use and COVID-19 policy … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor and director of the university’s Elections Research Center, said Vos’ statement will make it even more difficult to assuage concerns within his party over the 2020 election. “To suggest that it was … Continue reading
The election for Senior Class Office officially begins Tuesday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There are seven candidates, nearly all registered as pairs, running this election season, with the voting window closing Thursday, March 10.
UW-Madison political science professor and elections administration expert Kenneth Mayer said the claim is meaningless. “Even if the Legislature did pass some sort of ‘decertification’ now it would have no legal effect,” he said. “Once the electors have cast their … Continue reading
The wide-ranging bills the Assembly approved include a proposal by Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, AB 884, that would specify that if any University of Wisconsin System institution requires a course in diversity or ethnic studies, students could instead complete … Continue reading
The state Legislature plans to vote Tuesday on more than a dozen education bills that form a key plank of the Republican midterm election strategy: eliminating courses on racism and diversity, expanding private school vouchers and giving parents more control … Continue reading
Driving the news: Wisconsin’s Gov. Tony Evers announced in his “State of the State” address this week that he’ll extend the University of Wisconsin’s tuition freeze for another year. The Democratic governor also renewed calls to funnel the state’s budget … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said while low-turnout elections like those held in the spring in Wisconsin often provide greater influence for groups that are organized and for more strident candidates, … Continue reading
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden told the Cap Times last fall that the term “forensic audit” had never been used in the election administration world until 2021 — when unfounded claims about widespread electoral fraud began circulating.
Quoted: UW politics professor Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center, says, “Really in modern times, we’ve seen nothing like what has happened in Wisconsin, and nationally, since the 2020 election.” He continues, “The unwillingness of most of one … Continue reading
But Johnson is betting that dealing in disinformation will actually help his reelection bid. Indeed, as Michael Wagner, a journalism professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, suggested with regard to the panel, “It seems to be more of a way … Continue reading
Quoted: “He’s been I would say argumentative and somewhat belligerent,” said Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s a little bit of a sort of bull in the china shop analogy, that he’s just … Continue reading
Bids to curb so-called fraud are becoming standard for Republican candidates who want to win over voters, Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said in an interview. “Whoever is the nominee in … Continue reading
Ms. Harbath grew up in a conservative Wisconsin family in a paper-mill town, and attended the University of Wisconsin with plans to be a journalist.
Quoted: “This has gotten worse, not better,” said Michael Wagner, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication whose research focuses on the functioning of American democracy. “I think we had a moment a year … Continue reading
Quoted: “It feels a lot like the criticism we heard five or six years ago of the GAB,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Elections Research Center director Barry Burden said in a recent interview.
District 5 is a student-majority area that encompasses much of the UW-Madison campus including the dorms, State Street and Eagle Heights. Haasl has represented the district since 2020. In a statement to the press, Haasl explained that they plan not to … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the people Gableman is meeting with “are all election skeptics who have bought into the big lie.” Gableman, who last year without evidence claimed the … Continue reading
Written by Jordan S. Ellenberg, a mathematics professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of a new book “Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else,” Penguin Random House, May 2021.”
Corporate sponsors used the moment to pressure the Washington Redskins into changing their name. The Cleveland Indians followed close behind. College students used the moment to demand trivial changes on their campuses that did nothing to abolish racism. For example, … Continue reading
The University of Wisconsin-Madison saw its student-voter turnout for the 2020 presidential election rise to 72.8%, up from 65.4% in 2016. According to the Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), UW-Madison’s voting rate was higher than the 66% rate … Continue reading
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic complicating the voting process for students, many of whom were newly eligible to cast ballots, voter turnout on campus increased from 65% in the 2016 election to 73% in 2020. In total, 24,572 UW–Madison students voted … Continue reading
Trump’s presidency increased student voter turnout, political science professor says.
“It’s a pretty substantial burden for the prosecution to do that and I think that’s going to be where the real challenge for them lies,” said John Gross, a clinical associate professor and the director of the Public Defender Project … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said it’s not uncommon for political party leaders to change their views on recall elections. In 2012, Burden said, conservatives in Wisconsin fought the recall drive … Continue reading
“I do think it’s harmful,” Barry C. Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, said of the review. “It’s obviously amateurish and uncoordinated and irresponsible and open-ended and partisan. The people who are … Continue reading
A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers won a $750,000 grant intended to combat misinformation about COVID-19 and the 2020 election on Oct. 1. The grant will fund a project that will study the most effective methods of combating misinformation … Continue reading
Quoted: Mike Wagner, professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said the conflict between Vos, Gableman and Brandtjen is typical of recent dynamics within the Republican Party and shows a “crash to be as close to … Continue reading
Still, Wisconsin, a state whose people enjoy a reputation for embodying the concept of “Midwestern nice,” stands out. Mark Copelovitch, (Ken) Mayer’s University of Wisconsin colleague, argued that everything that has become commonplace at the national level, including the transformation … Continue reading
“When you have 51 percent of the vote, it had been generally [accepted] that you don’t govern like you’ve got 95 percent of the vote,” said Kenneth Mayer, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. “In … Continue reading
Quoted: UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden is the director of a non-partisan elections research center. He’s been following the election investigations closely. “It’s really unclear what’s happening in each investigation because these things are mostly not being done in … Continue reading
Video: Barry Burden, director of the UW-Madison Elections Research Center, responds to former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman’s statement about investigating the 2020 vote in the state.
Barry Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison noted that the draft report makes several errors by seizing on statistical aberrations that have simple explanations.
They’re not for establishing the residence of a voter in Maricopa County to vote,” Barry C. Burden, Director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said on the press call. “We don’t know how they get their … Continue reading
“For validating a person’s residence, and whether they are eligible to vote and where they lived in the weeks just before Election Day 2020, I think it’s probably not a trustworthy source,” said Barry Burden, the director of the Elections … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, the director of the Election Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said Ayyadurai’s claim can’t be taken seriously. “His statements about Massachusetts seem completely implausible,” Burden said. “These sort of artificial multipliers and things that he … Continue reading
Quoted: Barry Burden, director of the Election Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said at Wednesday’s news conference that the partisan efforts would hurt the public perception of a well-run election. “They are decreasing confidence in the election system, … Continue reading
In a recent independent report, former Republican Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson and University of Wisconsin elections expert Barry Burden found that the firm hired by the Arizona Senate to conduct the “audit” failed to meet the most basic … Continue reading
Other election experts have previously torn into the Arizona review as unprofessionally run, including a report from former Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson, a Republican, and Barry Burden, the director of the Elections Research Center at the University of … Continue reading
“It is basically an indicator of the success of the election,” said Barry Burden, the director of the elections research center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Election administrators managed to pull it off and support a record number of voters.”
Howard Schweber, a political law professor at UW-Madison, pointed to the conservative Heritage Foundation’s tracking of voter fraud cases, noting it had found a total of 47 cases going back to 2004.”It’s almost impossible for me to express how absurd … Continue reading
UW-Madison political science professor Barry Burden said Republicans may have inadvertently handed Evers a huge re-election gift by allowing him to sign such a monumental income tax cut, defusing the GOP attack line that Evers is a tax-and-spend liberal. “I … Continue reading
Two Republicans, University of Wisconsin-Madison law professor Ryan Owens and Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, are also running.
In addition, a new report published last week and co-authored by former Kentucky secretary of state Trey Grayson, a Republican, and University of Wisconsin Professor Barry C. Burden concluded that the Arizona procedures “deviate significantly from standard practices for election … Continue reading
Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and director of the school’s Elections Research Center, said the latest extension was “yet another sign that the Cyber Ninjas are in over their heads and didn’t really have the experience or qualifications … Continue reading
Quoted: The Maricopa County review “does not meet the standards of a proper election recount or audit,” said an evaluation of the ballot review by Trey Grayson, former Republican Kentucky secretary of state, and Barry Burden, a University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist.
“The Cyber Ninjas boondoggle deviates so substantially from a proper audit or recount that the results simply can’t be trusted,” Barry C. Burden, director of the Elections Research Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told Insider. “The Cyber Ninjas firm … Continue reading
The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents elected Regent Edmund Manydeeds III as its next president, bringing an end to an uncharacteristically tense process of transitioning the board’s leadership.
In just the sixth contested election in University of Wisconsin System history, the UW Board of Regents elected an appointee of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers as board president for the next year.
Attention this week turns to the UW Board of Regents, which finds itself at an interesting inflection point in the political power struggle over control of the University of Wisconsin System with the board holding its first contested election in … Continue reading
Barry Burden, professor of American politics and political methodology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told USA TODAY the discrepancy is “not a sign of fraud,” just a result of sampling error.
Quoted: The new maps are supposed to be in place for the 2022 elections. But the delays could be so severe that Wisconsin’s existing, Republican-friendly maps will have to be used for those elections, said Barry Burden, director of the … Continue reading
’Once I get into office, I’m going to work on the redistribution of [Rathskeller] sauce throughout the city,’ SCO vice president says.
Hilley and senior middle blocker Dana Rettke were among seven unanimous choices on the 22-member first team announced Thursday. They were joined by senior outside hitter Grace Loberg and freshman right side Devyn Robinson.
In races for open seats, Juliana Bennett beat Ayomi Obuseh with low turnout in the student-dominated 8th District around UW-Madison.
