wouldn t happen. maybe quite this way. and okay, and politico spoke to an expert on wisconsin law who put it this way, the law doesn t say what to do with these ballots. so it would certainly go to the courts. which we are very familiar with at this point. this is according to barry burden. but burden said that he thought that a judge would be extremely likely to grant some kind of accommodation and this underscores is that real life is maybe a little bit messier than how it was portrayed in this show in there are courts and election officials which cast down on what atm tried to do. specertainly, if we were talg about a determinative amount of ballots that have been destroyed, we know it will go to litigation. i could speak for cnn, i don t see that we would be in the range of making a projection in that kind of scenario because we know that litigation would have already been filed within
a staunchly republican legislature, that is a pretty good sign that something is off with the district maps. and wisconsin voters could take a step towards solving that problem tonight. after their votes are counted the top two vote getters will advance to the april 4th election. as long as at least one liberal advances there s a good chance that person might win in april flipping the court to a liberal majority. if that happens, experts all but guarantee that democrats will bring cases challenging those apparently fishy redrawn legislative maps. and by the way the court also expects to weigh in on wisconsin s zombie abortion ban that makes it a felony to perform an abortion except to save the life of the mother. despite being dormant for the past 49 years that ban wept into effect last summer after the supreme courts overturned roe v. wade. that zombie ban has been tied up in the courts ever since.
thank you both for joining me this evening. pleasure to be with you. thank you. it is a busy news night with a historicgh election for a vacan congressional seat in the state ofse virginia. while wisconsin voters went to the polls today to cast their ballots in a race crucial for the future of democracy in their state. plus senator bernie sanders will be live in the studio with me. we have quite a bit to talk about. he ll be here live coming up next. alk about. he ll be here live coming up next
on the right are their redrawn versions. republicans won both districts in 2022, won narrowly and the other in a landslide. skewed maps like these have suppressed the number of state competitive seats in every election cycle. because of rigged maps like these wisconsin republicans have had almost a monopoly on the legislature. they ve pushed democrats into a smaller number of solidly democratic blue districts and thereby ensuring republicans will always maintain a majority of seats. here s case in point, in the ten closest state assembly races republicans won in 2022 the margin was 7.5 points. the ten closest points democrats won the margin was 15.2 points. now, we know the fate of wisconsin is deeply, sharply divided along partisan lines. four of the last six presidential elections were decided by less than a percentage point. but the fact that year after year elections keep resulting in