Damn. Y'all live in a democracy. I gotta wonder if this is happening in my country (Brazil). I'm shocked people actually won. This feels like a Russian ploy to get our hopes up. The post office is...
In Milwaukee, election officials opened just five voting locations, instead of the typical 180.
Damn. Y'all live in a democracy. I gotta wonder if this is happening in my country (Brazil).
Heavy mail-in balloting may have upended assumptions about relative advantage; according to statistics issued Monday by the State Elections Commission, nearly 1.1 million Wisconsites cast ballots that way, nearly as many as total turnout in last year’s Supreme Court race — and more than total turnout in the court races in each of the previous two years.
“Tonight, not just Jill Zarofsky but democracy prevailed over a politically cynical strategy to weaponize the coronavirus pandemic as a tool of voter supression,” said Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin Democratic Party.
I'm shocked people actually won. This feels like a Russian ploy to get our hopes up. The post office is still being drained as we speak so this is probably not useful long-term.
So ... first of all, yayy. But this changes the SCOWI metrics from 5-2 to 4-3 Conservative majority. Beyond hints and signals of which way WI may go in Nov, I don't see that this changes things...
So ... first of all, yayy. But this changes the SCOWI metrics from 5-2 to 4-3 Conservative majority.
Beyond hints and signals of which way WI may go in Nov, I don't see that this changes things all that much.
A lot of news trumpeting this as Major Change for upcoming WI court cases relating to voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc ... I'm not seeing the Change. What am I missing?
From the article: So depending on how it goes I guess there's a chance Democrats will hold the vote in deadlock now, or maybe even swing it their way.
From the article:
Republicans entered the election with a 5-2 majority on the state Supreme Court, meaning that a Democratic victory still leaves liberals in the minority until 2023, the next time a conservative justice will face voters.
But an ongoing legal battle over a voter roll purge raised the stakes of this year’s election, with implications for November. Kelly recused himself, and conservative Justice Brian Hagedorn sided with voting rights groups to halt the purge. That left the court deadlocked 3-3 and gave Democrats a shot at stopping the purge, one of their top priorities ahead of the 2020 election.
So depending on how it goes I guess there's a chance Democrats will hold the vote in deadlock now, or maybe even swing it their way.
Damn. Y'all live in a democracy. I gotta wonder if this is happening in my country (Brazil).
I'm shocked people actually won. This feels like a Russian ploy to get our hopes up. The post office is still being drained as we speak so this is probably not useful long-term.
Be happy when there are successes.
So ... first of all, yayy. But this changes the SCOWI metrics from 5-2 to 4-3 Conservative majority.
Beyond hints and signals of which way WI may go in Nov, I don't see that this changes things all that much.
A lot of news trumpeting this as Major Change for upcoming WI court cases relating to voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc ... I'm not seeing the Change. What am I missing?
From the article:
So depending on how it goes I guess there's a chance Democrats will hold the vote in deadlock now, or maybe even swing it their way.
Wow! I asked about this last week in this thread. I wondered if it might backfire on the Republicans. I guess it worked out for the Dems!