Crawford visited Platteville Monday

One of the nation’s most closely watched elections of this off-year cycle — that for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — continued to build momentum with a Monday stop by Dane County Judge Susan Crawford in Platteville. More than 100 people filled the Grant County Democratic Party’s headquarters for Crawford’s event, and she portrayed the 2025 election as having historic stakes. “The stakes are not just about the future of our state and our kids and our fundamental rights,” she said. “It’s really about the future of our Wisconsin Supreme Court: whether we have a court that still acts like a court that makes decisions based on the law, rather than one that is promoting a partisan agenda.” According to the Wisconsin Elections Commission, 1,466 people had cast their absentee ballots already — either by mail or in-person — as of Monday, March 24, in Grant and Lafayette counties. That was 49.4% of the 2,969 voters who had requested absentee ballots by then. By March 24, 2023 — ahead of the last statewide election for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court — 932 people in Grant and Lafayette counties had cast their absentee ballots, or 38% of the 2,446 people who had requested them.