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Ben Wikler: “Andre was getting his haircut after the election and his…”

Featuring: Ben Wikler, Democratic | Chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin

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Ben Wikler With Bradley Whitford: How to End America's Meltdown and Save Democracy

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City councils in Wisconsin, they set the budgets for election administration. How much early voting time will there be? How many polling places will there be? These are set by local offices. Andre was getting his haircut after the election and his barber said, what happened with your city council race? And he said, well, it was tied and I lost the random draw. And then he was like, did you vote? By the way, Barber hadn't voted. And it was a reminder that like finding that last vote can actually make all the difference, especially in these local elections where nobody's paying attention. (40:06–40:16)

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Asserts that a city council race in Wisconsin was decided by a random draw due to a tie.

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