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- ↑ WI Uncontested Archived 2014-11-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Votesmart.org.-Mark Spreitzer
- ↑ "Pride at the polls: LGBT candidates win". Wisconsin Gazette. November 13, 2014. Archived from the original on November 16, 2014.