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Ben Wikler: “City councils in Wisconsin approve the budgets for polling…”

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

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Coffee with the contrarians with Norm and Ben Wikler

Published | Video Starts at 21:09

And that works at every level, but it starts at home. Now, the other side of this is local elected officials make decisions that affect every level of power. City councils in Wisconsin approve the budgets for polling places for elections. So if you want to make sure there's a polling place near the college campus in each of the different neighborhoods, you know, across race and ethnicity and education levels, … (21:09–21:15)

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Asserts that city councils in Wisconsin control election polling place budgets.

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