A Closer Look at the Ongoing Wisconsin Recount

Hi, Joan.  I am, as you said, a Wisconsin citizen, 47 years old. Right now I work a couple of part-time and temporary jobs to get by. I am an ecologist by training, and I work in the field of wildlife conservation during the summer. Since I'm not employed at a full-time job, I have some time to look into what is going on with the Waukesha County recount. I first got interested in electoral issues during the 2000 presidential election. My preferred candidate then was Ralph Nader. The so-called "spoiler" issue bothered me tremendously--the fact that my vote for Nader meant one less vote for Al Gore, the candidate who was most likely to defeat George W. Bush, who I definitely did not want to be elected. I read an article somewhere about Instant Runoff Voting, which obviates the spoiler issue. That whetted my appetite for reading more about electoral systems used in other countries. We really don't have very good voting systems here in the USA. Our "winner-take-all" system leaves a lot of voters without representation. There are better systems and I like telling people about them because we deserve a better voting system than the one we've got. Other countries have a "Prius" for their voting system, and we are still driving a Model-T Ford. The fact that these "late-discovered" votes provided just barely enough of a winning margin to force the losing candidate to have to pay for a recount (rather than it be paid for by the state of Wisconsin) made things look that much more dubious. And then there were articles in the press noting how Waukesha County Clerk used to work for the candidate who had lost by a razor's edge--lost, that is, until Ms. Nickolas discovered her error of not reporting an entire city's votes. Our Government Accountability Board, which is charged with overseeing Wisconsin's elections to make sure they are fair and legitimate, would have let the whole thing pass without investigation, except that the initial-winner-two-days-later-loser candidate, Joanne Kloppenburg, decided to exercise her right to request a recount--a recount she has to pay for. Those of us present as citizen observers are required to sit in a gallery just outside the area with the many tables staffed by volunteer "tabulators." You are actually able to sit quite close, only six feet away from the closest tabulator tables.

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