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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin GOP will tinker with election laws rather than follow court order
Wisconsin Republicans signaled Friday that they will hold a special election to change election law rather than facing special elections in two heavily Republican legislative districts.
On Thursday, Dane County Circuit Judge Josann Reynolds ordered Gov. Scott Walker (R) to call special elections in two legislative districts that have been vacant for months.
Walker's attorneys had argued state election law did not require him to fill the seats, because they were made vacant during an off year. The legislators who occupied both seats quit to take jobs in Walker's administration.
But the judge rejected those arguments, ruling in favor of voters from both districts and the National Democratic Redistricting Trust, a group led by former Attorney General Eric Holder, who argued that Walker's refusal to call special elections denied voters their right to representation in Madison.
http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/380045-wisconsin-gop-will-tinker-with-election-laws-rather-than-follow-court
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Something about 'ex post facto' and suchlike.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)If Wisconsinites leave those corrupt assholes in power after the November elections then a pox on their house as far as I am concerned. Walker has ruined the state economically and is attempting to cement republican control for many years, using outright graft to do so.
Thekaspervote
(32,778 posts)Lots of cock bros money among other things
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The elections in Virginia should be a roadmap. Democrats retained all too state executive offices and came close to taking the House of Delegates, in one powerful wave. We must insure that people that republicans are trying to prevent from voting get registered and maintain their registration, even if we have to help those people with the bullshit paperwork and fees republicans out up as roadblocks.
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)and refusals to testify to Congress and defy the rule of law has spread into quite a habit amongst Rs. Time to start arresting them. The law must be backed by consequences to work..
Cha
(297,314 posts)law in the first place?