2 constitutional amendments on April ballot, what will they mean for Wisconsin voters?
MITCHELL SCHMIDT
Voters wait in line on Nov. 3, 2020, outside a polling center on Election Day, in Kenosha. Wisconsin voters are being asked to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer elections, a Republican-backed effort in the ongoing battle over how to run elections in the presidential battleground state. That proposed constitutional amendment, along with a related one saying that only election officials designated by law may administer elections, are both on the state's April 2 ballot.
In 1781, the seventh planet of the solar system, Uranus, was discovered by Sir William Herschel.
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1954: Battle of Dien Bien Phu
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1995: David Daliberti
In 1995, two Americans working for U.S. defense contractors in Kuwait, David Daliberti and William Barloon, were seized by Iraq after they strayed across the border; sentenced to eight years in prison, both were freed later the same year.
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2012: Rick Santorum
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2013: Jorge Bergoglio
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2017 : Ilich Ramirez Sanchez
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2020: Breonna Taylor
Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old Black woman, was fatally shot in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, during a botched raid by plainclothes narcotics detectives; no drugs were found, and the warrant used to enter by force was later found to be flawed.
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2021: Marvelous Marvin Hagler
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Voters wait in line on Nov. 3, 2020, outside a polling center on Election Day, in Kenosha. Wisconsin voters are being asked to make it unconstitutional to accept private grant money to help administer elections, a Republican-backed effort in the ongoing battle over how to run elections in the presidential battleground state. That proposed constitutional amendment, along with a related one saying that only election officials designated by law may administer elections, are both on the state's April 2 ballot.
