A Partial Settlement Agreement resolving the case “United States of America v. Town of Thornapple” was filed on December 12, 2025 by the U.S. District Court for the Western District ...

Conspiracy theories reportedly led town to drop voting machines, but feds, advocates say voting rights of people with disabilities were violated.

TOWN OF THORNAPPLE, Wis. (WKOW) -- The Town of Thornapple will soon reintroduce accessible voting machines per an injunction filed with a federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin. The United ...

WASHINGTON (DOJ NEWS RELEASE) - The Justice Department announced today that a federal court in the Western District of Wisconsin has entered a preliminary injunction requiring the Town of Thornapple, ...

A federal judge has ordered a town in northern Wisconsin to return to using voting machines accessible to people with disabilities. Thornapple and its leaders violated federal law "by failing to ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has threatened a lawsuit over the agency's determination that two Rusk County communities and the state had failed to offer voting equipment for people with disabilities ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has sued two northern Wisconsin towns accusing them of not having voting machines accessible to people with disabilities. The DOJ said it had reached an agreement with ...

MADISON – A rural Wisconsin community's decision to eliminate electronic voting machines has attracted the attention of federal investigators who are questioning how voters with disabilities cast ...

WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today (Sept. 20) that it has filed a complaint against the Town of Thornapple, Wisconsin, and the State of Wisconsin for violations of Section 301 of the ...