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| Looming over Wisconsin's Supreme Court race is Gov. Scott Walker, reviled for selling out the state to dark money and corporate special interests. The Spring general election will be held April 3. |
Madison, Wisconsin—Led by record-breaking voter turn-outs in Madison that saw numerous precincts scrambling for more ballots, two Supreme Court candidates dubbed Sandernistas, combined for 54 percent of the vote against a Scott Walker-backed extremist.
Rebecca Dallet and Michael Screnock will advance to the April 3 general election, as progressive Tim Burns' supporters signaled their intention to defeat Screnock.
Progressive-liberal voters prevailing over Screnock is another sign the national Blue Wave is still building.
The Spring Primary race saw massive infusions of dark money and the Republicans' voter-suppression regime that would appear to be insufficient to build a wall against Wisconsin voters after Wisconsin's Lost Decade, 2011-2019 and 13 months of Trump's madness.
Unofficial statewide results from WTMJ-Milwaukee, show
Michael Screnock 46%, 247,480 votes
Rebecca Dallet 36% 191,155 votes
Tim Burns 18% 95,422 votes
At voting sites on Madison's east side to the southwest side, polling stations were running out of ballots around 5:00 p.m.
One polling place in the Meadowood neighborhood (wards 92 and 95), received visits from poll workers from three different neighboring precincts in the course of some 90 minutes, asking for more ballots. The ballots were given, followed by phone calls to the City Clerk's office by the Meadowood chief election inspector.
No reports were made by poll workers of voters having to wait to vote because of no ballots, as election couriers from the City Clerk's office rushed around the city delivering stacks of ballots as city roads iced up after dark.
Logan Wroge of the Wisconsin State Journal reports:
The Madison polling sites running out of ballots were stocked with ballots assuming roughly a 30 percent turn-out, a chief election inspector said last night.
Despite heavy snowfall in northern Wisconsin and flooding in the southern part of the state, Tuesday’s spring primary saw an above-average statewide turnout with 11.7 percent of the voting-age population casting ballots.
In the past two decades, there have been five spring primaries involving state Supreme Court candidates that averaged a 7.3 percent turnout, according to the State Elections Commission. ...
Dane County, which held a handful of local primaries along with the Supreme Court race, saw an 18.7 percent turnout, and 20.3 percent of voting-age Madison residents heading to the polls.
In Dane County the Dallet-Burns combined votes totaled 82.6 percent against 17.3 for Screnock (Dane County, 2018 Spring Primary results, (unofficial)).
The outspoken progressive Tim Burns, whom observers noted pushed Dallet to take several progressive positions, writes this morning:
For the Spring General election on April 3, informed campaign sources in Madison say they expect record campaign spending and record voter turn-out.Thanks so much everyone and congratulations to Judge Dallet. No regrets here. Great campaign team. Said exactly what I thought had to be said—no compromising on that. I’m honored by your support. Will continue to work for a better state and world.— Tim Burns (@Burns4WI) February 21, 2018
