Project 72, also known as Project 72 Wisconsin, is an election advocacy organization that sought to provide information to students on up to 15 college campuses around the state of Wisconsin regarding the April 4 State Supreme Court Election. ¹ The Supreme Court Race resulted in victory on April 4 for Democrat-based candidate Janet Protasiewicz over Republican-backed Dan Kelly. ²

April 4 Wisconsin State Supreme Court Election

Durin an interview with Cap Tims, Chair of the Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Winkler revealed a memo shared by Project 72 detailing their efforts to inform and encourage college students to vote in the April 4 State Supreme Court Election, with the group claiming that they had knocked on, “more than 400,000 doors” of university students. ³ According to the group’s memo, Democrat-backed candidate Janet Protasiewicz received at least 75 percent of the vote in every student ward within the state and even claimed that the student turnout within a ward at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was, “97 percent” of the student turnout from that same ward in November 2022. ⁴

1. Project 72 Wisconsin, Accessed April 11, 2023. https://www.project72wi.org/
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