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clerk in wisconsin. she spent the last 15 years running elections. here she is holding a mock election in 2011. she is trying to figure out how much extra time voters need to cast ballots under the state s iner you voter id law. i m madison city clerk. and today we re having a mock election invi the city county building to time various scenarios with voter id and figure out how to do the best practices for 2012 before we actually have an election. she said she chose to do this work because she wanted to combat voting inequities in madison. she encourages every new wisconsin election clerk that comes to herwi for training to similarly find their why. quote, they have to focus on why they re doing this work. what it comes down to is making votingak accessible to those eligible to vote. that s why we keep showing up daye after day. her why is more important now than ever. in 2020, mary beth contemplated not showing up. she almost quit. that s because after election day ....
we hold that roe and casey must be overruled justice alito writes in an initial majority draft circulated inside the court. that scoop, that headline changed everything it certainly changed the course of the midterm elections that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november election skyrocketed. it gave democrats over a month and a half head start to start campaigning on that issue before the opinion was handed down in late june. on june 24th the supreme court struck down roe v. wade, the law of the land for nearly 50 years, and stripped away reproductive rights for millions in this country. six weeks later the first test of abortion rights at the state ballot box came in kansas. voters in kansas headed to the polls in early august to vote on a constitutional amendment that would strip away abortion rights from the state constitution. in kansas of all places, voters rejected that republican effort. people overwhelmingly voted to protect abortion rights in the state s co ....
Democracy? yeah. not a good sign. these are people involved in the running of government and elections. this requires a totally different set of skills to manage an incredibly stressful situation but also resolve it. that is a lot to ask of a clerk. what is the general emotional tenor of people who come here and are really angry i would assume they re all kind of to this office we haven t gotten much of that. the recount was really on full display. they were closed arms, red faced, yelling, not listening. how responsive has been law enforcement been to your kernt about threats you may be facing? well, they ve been helpful. i think part of the problem is they deal with people getting threatened all day long. so when they hear i got a threat on e-mail from a proton e-mail ....
Worried about it but they haven t had something too terrible. maybe someone a little angry or, you know, they get them when they have to pay taxes or they get thisax in other areas. but the other thing is they are soin dedicated to their job and they love their job. they take it seriously. and they know it s important. how responsive has law enforcement been to your concerns about threats that you may be facing? well, they have been helpful. i think part of the problem though is that they deal with people getting threatened all day long. soda when they hear, you know, got a threat on e-mail from a proton e-mail you can t trace, it s hard e to do a lot about i. for them, its common. but, you know what? i try to explain to them, but it s meant to destabilize our democracy. if people leave who know what they re doing, who are they replace bid?re then they make mistakes and it ....