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<p>44EAGLE RIVER, Wis (Reuters) - Voters in two Wisconsin State Senate districts head to the polls on Tuesday in the last of nine recall elections triggered by the fight earlier this year over Republican-backed curbs on the union rights of public workers.</p>

Politics: Unions' failure to recall four Republican state senators shows that their days of power through intimidation are over. If this was a rehearsal for 2012, the White House should start making other plans. The natives are still restless, the pitchforks sharp and the Walker revolution safe. Portrayed by union leaders as an aberration fueled by a generic voter wrath against incumbents, the GOP grab of both houses of Wisconsin's legislature and the governor's office in 2010 was predicted to fade once voters realized "workers' rights" were at risk. Then a funny thing happened on the way to the polling...

Republicans Maintain Control Of Senate 2 Democrats Face Recall Elections Next Week August 9, 2011 MADISON, Wis. -- Republicans will stay in control of the state Senate after surviving recall challenges Tuesday. Republicans on Tuesday successfully defended four seats in recall elections, and Democrats picked two seats. The Republican state senators who were targets of the recalls were Sens. Luther Olsen, Robert Cowles, Alberta Darling, Sheila Harsdorf, Dan Kapanke and Randy Hopper. While Olsen, Cowel and Harsdorf were victorious and kept their seats, Kapanke and Hopper lost to their Democratic challengers. Hopper was defeated by Democrat Jessica King in the...

GOP leading in 5 out of 5 WI recall races,

Update, 10:22pm- Cowles (R) leading Nusbaum (D) 18,718-13,292. With 73 out of 90 precincts reporting, Pundit Press calls this race for Cowles (R) Pasch (D) leading Darling (R) 8,848-6,741. Harsdorf (R) leading Moore (D) 19,572-13,921. Olsen (R) leading Clark (D) 15,788-12,952. Hopper (R) leading King (D) 5,794-5,229. Shilling (D) leading Kapanke (R) 6,039-5,256. Update, 10:14pm- Cowles (R) leading Nusbaum (D) 16,672-11,815. Darling (R) leading Pasch (D) 5,111-4,266. Harsdorf (R) leading Moore (D) 18,822-13,401. Olsen (R) leading Clark (D) 10,974-9,058. Hopper (R) leading King (D) 5,794-5,229. Shilling (D) leading Kapanke (R) 2,641-2,556. Update, 10:08pm- Cowles (R) leading Nusbaum (D) 12,832-9,186. Darling...

Election Turnout Expected To Be High TomorrowUPDATED: 2:54 pm CDT August 8, 2011 SHOREWOOD, Wis. -- Election ads may be unusual this time of year, but so too is estimating the summer election turnout for just six races across the entire state. Nevertheless, preparations are being made as six Republican senators face their final recall election. "We have all our staff in place," said Sue Edman of the Milwaukee Election Commission. "All of our machines, all of our machines are ready to go." Southeast Wisconsin has its sights on the 8th Senate District, as recalled Sen. Alberta Darling faces challenger...

WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) -- Wisconsin Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin sent a letter Friday to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder asking for a federal investigation into the "questionable handling" of votes in her state's Supreme Court race. On Thursday, Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus revealed that she incorrectly entered vote totals in the state's hotly contested high court race. According to unofficial tallies, the incumbent Justice David Prosser now has a 7,500-vote lead over opponent JoAnne Kloppenburg. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, a final, unofficial vote count had showed Kloppenburg, the state's assistant attorney general, with 204 more votes than Prosser. The...

The latest vote count in the state Supreme Court race in Winnebago County indicates incumbent David Prosser is leading Assistant Attorney General JoAnne Kloppenburg in votes. A tally compiled by The Associated Press Wednesday and used by news organizations statewide, including the Journal Sentinel, indicated Kloppenburg was leading the race by 204 votes. Figures on Winnebago County's website are now different from those collected by the AP. Winnebago County's numbers say Prosser received 20,701 votes to Kloppenburg's 18,887. The AP has 19,991 for Prosser to Kloppenburg's 18,421. The new numbers would give Prosser 244 more votes, or a 40-vote lead...

In a stunning development that instantly changed the race for the state Supreme Court, a county clerk's error on election night added 7,582 votes for incumbent Justice David Prosser over challenger JoAnne Kloppenburg.

Right on schedule, allegations that somebody committed voter fraud or other election illegalities in yesterday's Wisconsin Supreme Court balloting are being heard this afternoon in a county that voted heavily for incumbent conservative Justice David Prosser. Pundit Press, which closely followed the election balloting yesterday, offers this analysis: "As if the situation in Wisconsin wasn't tense enough, it appears that one county in particular is going to a new extreme. This comes after word that there may have been voter fraud in the nonpartisan State Supreme Court election yesterday between incumbent