{"podcast":{"title":"WORT 89.9FM Madison","slug":"wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612","podcast_index_feed_id":6475612,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:20835094/sounds.rss","website_url":"http://www.wortfm.org","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-zHxZTp6DzH3n2gzW-7rEskg-original.jpg","author":"WORT 89.9FM Madison","episode_count":500,"summary":"Listener-sponsored, volunteer-powered, noncommerc…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-31T10:20:25.821251+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612"},"episode":{"title":"Spring election results include late-arriving Madison ballots","slug":"spring-election-results-include-late-arriving-madison-ballots","published_at":"2026-05-19T23:21:10+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/spring-election-results-include-late-arriving-madison-ballots","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612","url":"https://soundcloud.com/wort-fm/spring-election-results","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2323939091-wort-fm-spring-election-results.mp3","summary":"Wisconsin law requires absentee ballots to arrive at the polls before they close on Election Day in order to be counted. But the state elections commission made the wrong decision, a Dane County judge ruled Thursday, when it ordered the city of Madison to remove 23 late-arriving ballots from the spring election’s final tally. Scott Thompson is staff counsel at Law Forward, a Madison-based firm that sued the elections commission on behalf of two impacted voters. He joined our News Producer Faye Parks to explain how they won the case. Image courtesy: Chali Pittman / WORT News.","meta_description":"Wisconsin law requires absentee ballots to arrive at the polls before they close on Election Day in order to be counted. But the state elections commissio…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":536,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/episodes/spring-election-results-include-late-arriving-madison-ballots/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/wort-89-9fm-madison-6475612/spring-election-results-include-late-arriving-madison-ballots.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}