A large batch of absentee-ballot results reported late on election night from Milwaukee was normal under Wisconsin counting procedures and “forecasted,” the state Elections Commission chair said in response to posts online suggesting the sudden appearance of votes mostly favoring Democrats was proof of fraud.

Eric Hovde, the Wisconsin Republican who nearly unseated Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin, acknowledged this week that he lost the election but also raised questions about the legitimacy of the result as he mulls requesting a recount.

During his first term, Trump dismantled more than 100 environmental regulations, weakening pollution controls and protections for air, water and public lands.

Meagan Wolfe’s term expired in 2023. Democrats say a previous court decision allows her to stay on indefinitely.

A chart shows votes for Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin increasing when Milwaukee reported its absentee ballot results -- as officials expected.

Wisconsin Republican Eric Hovde is admitting that he lost the U.S. Senate race to Democratic incumbent Tammy Baldwin, but refusing to concede and instead is repeating misleading claims about the election while he considers a recount.

Wisconsin has 4.27 million inactive voters and 3.66 million registered voters. Inactive voters are not registered and are not eligible to vote unless they re-register on or before

Eric Hovde, who lost his Senate campaign, is the first prominent candidate to suggest his race was rigged. We fact-checked his case.

Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde released a video Tuesday questioning the Wisconsin election results that show he lost to incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D) last week. “Many people have

Exit polls and numbers show he may be right on that, but then he went too far, claiming, based on what he’d seen on television, that "every single county in America, every single county, Kamala Harris did worse than Joe Biden did."

Wisconsin was a key battleground state in the 2024 presidential election between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with 10 electoral votes at stake.

Wisconsin's hotly contested race for U.S. Senate between Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican Eric Hovde, who was backed by President-elect Donald Trump, appeared to be close enough early Wednesday for a recount to be requested.