Last night the beloved and influential Rachel Maddow updated viewers on the fallout from the Great Republican Over-Reach of 2011 -- specifically, the dueling recall efforts happening in the state. As we know, liberal organizations have successfully pulled together enough signatures to try to recall four state Republicans. Now, as Maddow reports, right-leaning Walker supporters have countered that effort by collecting sufficient signatures to get three Democrats on the ballot as well.The Democrats have little to worry about; the voters in their districts are majority anti-Walker. In fact, Republicans apparently had to give out free shots of booze to get enough signatures against the Democrats. Maddow has all the details on that hilariously sad development, including audio of some WI voters receiving their free booze while, it seems, having no idea what they're being asked to sign. |
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)