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Democrats Voted On Wednesday: Only Two Seats Flip in WI Recall

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In the historical recall elections in the WI state senate, two seats held by Repubs turned blue on Tuesday. While not enough to place a bipartisan check on ALECÃ ??s corporate agenda favored by Gov. Walker and the conservatives,the elections were mired in dirty tricks that included election fraud and flooding of out of state money from hidden donors.The entire recall process has seen a lot of dirty tricks being played.This started early when conservatives tried to flood the recall process with fake candidates to force Democrats to devote time and energy to getting real candidates on the recall ballot, give more time to ram through the anti-worker,far-right agenda by the corporate front group the American Legislative Exchange Council(ALEC),and allow more time for GOP incumbents to distance themselves from controversy.The entire corporate agenda of ALEC can be found on ALECexposed.
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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...)
 

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