Wisconsin drops from 4th to 47th in voter access ranking

[RandySF]

Around noon on an overcast April Election Day, dozens of canvassers returned to a second-floor conference room of the Greater Spring Hill Missionary Baptist Church on Milwaukee’s north side.

They were dressed for the weather: layers, winter hats and a few with ponchos. Within an hour, they would be back out in neighborhoods and knocking on doors — walking a careful line between offering helpful resources and seeming to be yet another person asking residents to vote for the sixth time in less than 16 months.

The gathering of Black Leaders Organizing Communities represents a bulwark against an alarming trend in Wisconsin electoral politics: The state has transformed from one of the easiest places to cast a ballot 30 years ago to one of the most difficult. That trend is particularly pronounced among Black and Latino voters, according to recent research.

If BLOC’s canvassers were tired of talking about elections, Executive Director Angela Lang told them to imagine the fatigue voters felt.

“We had four elections just in 2022. Four,” she said. “The last one was in November. We slept for like a day, and we’re back at it. If we were doing all of this, imagine being a voter that’s not involved and engaged.”




https://captimes.com/news/government/wisconsin-drops-from-4th-to-47th-in-voter-access-ranking/article_82b32273-fde9-5165-a23e-e07b0eea8147.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. just wow

[Tetrachloride]

2. There's plenty of Dem leaders who sat on their hands

I have repeatedly stated that Wisconsin needs help. But the response in DU is close to stone silence. I don’t expect most people to respond— but more than zero would be fucking nice.

Wisconsin could not defeat Ron Johnson.

Wisconsin could not defeat Trump in 2016.

I’d like to see a lot activism as demonstrated by AOC.

[Blue Owl]

3. Sounds like the gasping death knell of the GOP, desperately trying their last attempts to cheat

C'mon Wisconsin -- don't let them cheat to win!

[Midnight Writer]

4. Wisconsin was a testing ground for oligarchs to see how much control their money could buy.

Now they are applying what they learned in Wisconsin to other states.