Redistricting and Recall Update

A hearing on a proposed Brown County redistricting plan will be held at 9:30 a.m. July 20 before Judge Sue Bischel at the Brown County Courthouse.

But when will Judge Bischel rule? Until the districts are done done municipalities cannot draw their wards and those wards have always been used to draw the congressional districts. If that weren't the case you'd have to have more than one ballot in a given polling place and that's an administrative nightmare. Part of keeping elections clean is keeping the process straight forward and as simple as possible.

Looks like Brown County jumped head first in to the new voting rules. The election workers will ask for ID and you have to live in the district 28 days before voting. Was this mandated? Did it come from the Clerk, Executive, Board, where? I do appreciate the facts presented but there is zero background in this story.

I still don't get that last part, you don't have to live there 28 days before running for office-- it's pretty common that people move or rent a room in to districts to run like as Former Alder Sortwell, State Rep. Weininger, and U.S. Rep Ribble apparently did-- but at least at the local level you only have to live there for 10 days before running.