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Related: About this forum@WisDems OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR WISCONSIN'S SPRING ELECTION: Vote "NO" on Question 1 and Question 2--
Wisconsin Democrats @WisDems
OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR WISCONSINS SPRING ELECTION:
Vote NO on Question 1 and Question 2the constitutional amendment on the April 2 ballot.
Educate yourself on whyread and share:
https://twitter.comWisDems/status/1770184509771674092?s=20
Ben Wikler @benwikler
@WisDems
recommends voting NO.
Heres what you have to know, and why it matters.
The background: the proposed amendment contains two questions. The first would ban the use of private funds in election administration. The second would ban anyone not listed in statute as an election official from assisting with an election. Both of these proposals stem directly from MAGA conspiracy theories that have been disproven a bazillion times over, and would create new problems without solving any old ones.
To understand why, you have to dig into the context. MAGA politicians in Madison have been starving the electoral system of funds. Nonpartisan grants have helped fill some of the gaps financially, and election administrators rely on a slew of outside experts, volunteers, and community members to help make elections work. But for the MAGA fringe, the goal is to make sure elections *dont* work. When Trump lost in 2020, they didnt change candidates, or change strategy. They decided to try and change the rules, at the expense of the voters.
You can read the @LWV_WI
s full guide here: https://my.lwv.org/wisconsin/vote-no-2-april-constitutional-amendments
Where voters have the last word, voting rights have actually expanded. Look at Michigan, which has a ballot initiative processand where voters overwhelmingly voted on expanding ballot access. But in Wisconsin, the only way to get a binding question in front of voters is to pass it through the state legislatureand our state legislature has, since 2011, been utterly rigged by and for the GOP through partisan gerrymandering. Constitutional amendments also arent subject to the governors veto authoritymeaning @Tony4WI
cant be Wisconsins goalie as he has been for so many of the MAGA GOPs anti-democratic plots.
In other words, these questions are brought to you by the same people who spent millions on sham investigations of the 2020 election and, just last week, killed bipartisan legislation to streamline the processing of early and absentee ballotsa measure that would have helped get election results out earlier on election night and ended the late-night absentee counting that is currently required by law and yet is the basis of the false conspiracy theories that gave rise to these amendments.
Its a sham, and its a disgrace. Wisconsin voters deserve better. And change is on the wayour pro-democracy Supreme Court ended the gerrymander, and voters will finally decide which party controls the state Assembly in Novembers elections. But in the meantime, voters will decide on this constitutional amendment. Early vote starts today. Polls close at 8pm on Tuesday, April 2. Vote no, and spread the wordand then recommit to fighting for democracy every chance you get.
1:00 PM · Mar 19, 2024
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@WisDems OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR WISCONSIN'S SPRING ELECTION: Vote "NO" on Question 1 and Question 2-- (Original Post)
riversedge
Mar 2024
OP
Sometimes I wonder if I should have moved back to Wisconsin when I retired.
LiberalFighter
Apr 2024
#3
riversedge
(72,956 posts)1. kick and R. It is April 2--time to vote in W
riversedge
(72,956 posts)2. k
LiberalFighter
(53,439 posts)3. Sometimes I wonder if I should have moved back to Wisconsin when I retired.
If I did would not have been to Janesville. But someplace in Dane County so I could had helped the Local Party.
AllyCat
(17,010 posts)4. Oh Wisconsin, why???
Super disappointing