Wisconsin Voters Prepare to Weigh In On the War in Iraq
by Angry White LiberalThe Wisconsin Green Party gets a brief mention here…
The Watertown referendum, like most others in the state, began with the Wisconsin Green Party, which made a pitch to Eiler and her group in October. Drawing on a law from the Progressive Era that sanctioned “direct legislation” in municipalities as a curb on power, activists soon started gathering signatures — a number equal to 15 percent of the people who voted for governor in the last election.
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It’s easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That’s because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America’s voting machines, Freeman writes in a book out in July that argues, among other things, that President Bush may owe his 2004 win to an unfair vote count. We’ll wait to read his book before making a judgment about that. But Freeman has assembled comparisons that suggest Americans protect their vices more than they guard their rights, according to data he presented at an October meeting of the American Statistical Association in Philadelphia.
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