evidence: Wisconsin is one of the key states that will decide who will be our next president. It’s also a state where Republican lawmakers have been making it harder to vote for about a decade. New restrictions, including a strict voter ID law, have been especially hard on Black voters. Then the pandemic hit Milwaukee. As lawmakers forced Wisconsin’s spring election to happen on time and in person, the state’s largest Black population was getting hammered by the coronavirus. Reporter Ike Sriskandarajah takes us to his home state to look at the effect of the virus and voting reforms and what that might mean for the presidential election, for a story reported in partnership with APM Reports. [...] Wisconsin was one of those so called trifecta states where all branches of government were now controlled by Republicans so that they could then redistrict with complete authority. [...] Dee Hall at Wisconsin Watch agrees.