You’d Have to Be a Newborn From Mars Not to See Wisconsin Was a Test Run for November – Esquire

Tuesday's farce of an election forced upon the people of Wisconsin by an alliance between their states gerrymandered Republican legislature and conservative justices on both the state and United States Supreme Court continues to be the crow on the Capitol as we look towards the November election. (Paul Krugman went to town on the subject in Fridays NYT. Hes not wrong, either.) Most of the ratfcking involved the absentee ballot process, which was a complete fiasco, if not an entirely accidental one. From The New York Times:

Now, the election officials in Milwaukee, which (mysteriously) had the most problems with its absentee ballots, want the U.S. Postal Service to investigate, according to WTMJ-TV.

(Of course, the USPS has its own problems at the moment. And the perpetually circling vultures are unusually close to the ground.)

Youd have to be a newborn from Mars to believe that Wisconsin wasnt a bench test for what the Republicans have planned for the general election in the fall. The propaganda drumbeat against vote-by-mail already has started from the very top. The federal courts are largely in position as a backstop, and the only real solutionswamp the pollsactually could be a life-or-death choice for a great number of citizens. Nice little republic we had. Shame that something happened to it.

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You'd Have to Be a Newborn From Mars Not to See Wisconsin Was a Test Run for November - Esquire