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	Podcast:		Local Features by WXPR
	Episode:		New Early Voting Restrictions Could Significantly Impact the Northwoods
	Category:		Government & Organizations
	Duration:		00:05:27
	Publish Date:		2019-01-10 05:00:00
	Description:		During early December of 2018, Wisconsin legislators passed a bill restricting the period for early voting. This measure has been controversial and has garnered national spotlight, but how does it impact the Northwoods? WXPR’s Joshua Junig has the story. On December 14, then-Governor Scott Walker signed three pieces of Republican-sponsored legislation as his administration prepared to leave office. Among those measures is a bill mandating the early voting period to open two weeks prior to election day. Legislators and Walker felt this bill creates statewide uniformity of early voting periods. Since the signing of this bill, One Wisconsin Now , an issue advocacy organization, has challenged this law in federal court with the help of national coalitions led by Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. But the question remains, how does this impact Northwoods residents? Tracy Hartman is the clerk for Oneida County and the Town of Crescent. She oversees all 21 town clerks in Oneida County,
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