I think if I were an instructor at University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, I’d tell my students that their assignment for November 8, 2016 is to vote. If it was a math class, I’d also instruct them to count the fingers on their left and right hands, divide by two, and write down the answer. Turn in an “I voted” sticker and the answer to the question and receive full credit for the day. Each instructor could use topic-appropriate assignments so that no one could say they weren’t teaching their subject.
It wouldn’t solve this particular issue or this particular clerk’s bias, but at least the students wouldn’t have to worry that they were going to risk being marked absent because they missed class in order to vote.
Not sure why this lady has a job doing this. That is not the intention. It is like having a polling place in a rural site. The voters are going to be more conservative, does that mean do not have it there? That does not make any sense at all, one has to think they meant that no advantages are supposed to be given in the process. Location is supposed to make voting easier and there are areas where there will be more to one side or the other.
So by not opening a site that she thinks might help one party, but leaving all other sites the same, she magically thinks the is not advantaging the other party.
The fact that a law with that wording was passed at some point gives you an idea of the shenanigans that must have taken place in the past. But the real problem is the long, stupid history of court decisions that say voter suppression and gerrymandering are OK just as long as they’re aimed at parties and not a “protected class”.
Wondering if Clerk Teske feels the same way about polling locations in fundamentalist Xtian churches? Be interesting to find out where HER polling location is.
Oh, come on! At least she put it as a question rather than a demand. It’s not her fault that one of her two synapses stopped firing. Have some compassion for the disabled.
In a national election where reputable polling puts the Democratic candidate at between 85-93% chances of winning the election, does that mean that Wisconson should simply close all of its polling places?
Exactly. In fact, the Supreme Court struck down voting restrictions in North Carolina because they were targeted specifically reducing the vote in areas that skewed Democratic.
It happens everywhere. Even in my highly Democratic county, with an Elections Office run by a local Democrat, we are under a Republican state administration and a Republican State Auditor who is intent on implementing voting restrictions. Since he has no legal basis to do that, he did it by cutting budgets. So Early voting has been cut back from 30 days to 15. Early voting at student dormitories has been moved to the Law Library. Hmm… I wonder if law students skew Republican.
But this is also a “Townies vs. Gownies” issue. There is always tension in college towns between students and permanent residents. The permanent locals don’t think the students have a right to vote in local elections since they will just move away after they graduate. This is abhorrent, since those same Townies will exploit students for their economic benefit. Those students pay local taxes and are part of the local economy, and they are CITIZENS ferchrissake. Where are they supposed to vote? Absentee in their hometown where they haven’t set foot since they went to college?
At my local super market today i saw a grizzled very mean looking gent in his 80’s at least. He was wearing a t shirt emblazoned with "SHE’S GUILTY! JAIL HILLARY!!
I thought i should yell SEIG HEIL!! at him, but then thought better of it and kept quiet.
