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New GOP head wants earlier ballot counting in Wisconsin

by Scott Bauer
| December 17, 2020 12:06 PM

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The incoming Republican majority leader in the Wisconsin Senate wants to pass a bill early in 2021 to change state law to allow for the counting of absentee ballots before Election Day, a change he tried to get passed with Democratic support last year but never got a vote in the Legislature.

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