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Related: About this forumWHERE DOES WISCONSIN VOTE THIS TUESDAY? Not everyone knows, not even state government
On top of everything else that the state's Republicans have done to enfeeble Wisconsin's once smoothly functioning election process, here's a potentially major problem that's going to come as a real slap in the face to some voters who show up to vote in the spring primary elections this coming Tuesday:
An unknown but possibly large number of voters are going to discover that their normal voting place has changed, without prior notice.
This is because (unlike the probable recall elections coming up later this year), the February elections across this state will be the first to use the new, goofy, gerrymandered legislative redistricting scheme that Republicans devised in secret last year, without including local units of government in the process, as usual. Without holding meaningful public hearings. Without apparently paying attention to much of anything besides extending and cementing their own incumbent power.
Normally, voters would receive information in advance of the election informing that their address was moved into a different precinct thanks to redistricting. But everything's been delayed this year and made more uncertain because of the way the GOP handled legislative reapportionment -- namely, in secret, using private attorneys out of the public's view, in some respects incompetently so.http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/where-does-wisconsin-vote-tuesday-not-everyone-knows-not-even-st
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Here is what the GAB web site has to say in total on the matter, as of two business days before the election:
Note to Voter Public Access users:
Polling place information for some voters may be temporarily incorrect.
As part of the redistricting process, ward definitions for each municipality have changed. Municipal Clerks are in the process of updating polling place information. As a result, some users may see incorrect polling place information.
Polling place information will be correctly updated prior to your next election in February 2012. Please check back later.
If you need information about your polling place location now, please contact your Municipal Clerks office. For a listing of Municipal
Clerks, please click here: http://gab.wi.gov/clerks/directory
These Republican shitstains have engineered an election that will go down in history as the most confusing, and likely court-contested, in US history.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)the gop in a national security threat. what's next gop suicide belts?
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)Sue Edman, the director, stated that postcards were sent to all the voters whose polling place has changed (there were more than 100 wards, as I recall from wherever I read this). Since she was appointed there a number of years ago, they have their act together much better than before.