A record (unofficial) turnout of 42.76 percent in this vibrant oasis took to the polls as the City continued its mission to serve eligible voters who wish to cast ballots.
This performance in democracy is not an accident.
The Madison City Clerk's motto — we exist to assist — is a mission every voting rights worker, every poll worker, every assisting staffer at Madison libraries, appears to take very seriously.
Who can argue with the results?The unofficial final turnout in the City of Madison today was 42.76% of registered voters with 66,653 Madisonians casting ballots. pic.twitter.com/UeBvr3PQjT— Madison WI Clerk (@MadisonWIClerk) August 15, 2018
Gov. Scott Walker (R) and Wisconsin Republicans do.
Even as Madison election officials tabulate and certify the Fall Primary results in the coming days, looming is the Republican Wisconsin Dept of Justice for whom voting rights are a societal defect to be overcome.
Voters must be stopped from casting votes or Republicans face the prospect of defeat such as the special election of State Sen. Dist One that Walker and Republicans went to absurd lengths to block this year.
Two federal voting rights cases — One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen and Frank v. Walker — are before a three-judge panel at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, (Marley, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel).
This week I emailed a voting rights question to two state DoJ officials, Mss. Ballwegra and Mikalofsky, reading: "Can we expect a new filing to Seventh Circuit from DoJ in the next several weeks Re One Wisconsin Now and Walker v. Frank?"
No response received.
The three judges who would consider new filings in the voting rights litigation are: Frank Easterbrook, Michael Kanne and Diane Sykes.
Easterbrook and Sykes are corrupt and craft their election-law opinions to most benefit the Republican Party.
Both judges would be willing to issue an order in the next eight weeks eviscerating the effect of pro-voting rights decisions that have resulted in high voter turnouts during the last two years.
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In just five weeks, absentee voting begins in the Wisconsin Fall General Election, per the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE), a federal law that mandates states and territories transmit ballots for federal elections "to absent uniformed services and overseas voters no later than 45 days before federal elections."
Election Day is Nov. 6.
Wonder what Republicans at the Dept of Justice are thinking about today.
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