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The surprising Wisconsin law that blocks election bettors from voting

A Kalshi billboard displaying New York City mayoral election odds in New York on Monday, October 27, 2025. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Could you accidentally gamble away your right to vote? If you live in Wisconsin, and you bought contracts on a prediction market like Kalshi about who would win elections there, you’ve done just that, according to state election officials. And they think that if you vote anyway, you could be prosecuted. “We want voters to understand that they cannot legally make a bet on an election and cast a ballot in that same election,” Meagan Wolfe, admin...