US EditionSame candidate, two parties. A Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting
- A lawsuit was filed in Wisconsin seeking to legalize fusion voting, allowing candidates to appear under multiple party lines, which may empower independent voters and smaller parties.
- The group United Wisconsin, which filed the lawsuit, argues that the state's ban on candidates appearing on ballots more than once for the same office violates the state constitution's equal protection guarantee.
- Dale Schultz, co-chair of United Wisconsin, stated, 'we'd like to see the state courts affirm that we have a constitutional right to associate with whomever we want.'
- Supporters of fusion voting indicate it could address voter demand for more choices in a system they see as 'calcified and deeply unstable,' as noted by attorney Jeff Mandell of Law Forward.
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Same candidate, two parties: Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting
Reading Time: 3 minutesVoters in Wisconsin could be seeing double on Election Day if the practice of fusion voting — which allows the same candidate to appear on the ballot under multiple party lines — makes a comeback in the battleground state.A lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to legalize the practice, saying it would empower independent voters and lesser-known political parties at a time of increasingly bitter partisanship between Republicans and …
Fusion voting: Wisconsin lawsuit could bring back the once-common election practice
A lawsuit filed in Wisconsin Tuesday could bring back fusion voting, a practice that was once common in a number of states. The lawsuit, from the newly formed group United Wisconsin, asks the state to revive fusion voting, a practice…
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Same candidate, two parties. A Wisconsin lawsuit aims to bring back fusion voting
A lawsuit in battleground Wisconsin seeks to legalize a once-popular practice of fusion voting, where the same candidate could appear on the ballot as nominated by multiple political parties.
Wisconsin once allowed 'fusion voting.' A lawsuit aims to bring it back.
The firm Law Forward is suing in Wisconsin to bring back a long-dormant practice known as fusion voting, where a candidate can appear on the ballot more than once, next to every political party that endorses them. The post Wisconsin once allowed ‘fusion voting.’ A lawsuit aims to bring it back. appeared first on WPR.
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