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Ben Wikler: “The right has targeted these positions to try to get…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 14:26

Where to Put polling places how long the early vote period should be open. In Wisconsin, we have 1,850 municipal clerks who actually administer elections in our state. And these are generally totally nonpartisan public servants. But The right has targeted these positions to try to get conspiracy theorists and election deniers into positions of local control. So at one level, directly in the United States of America, elections are run at the state level and administered at the local level. (14:26–14:32)

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Asserts that the right is targeting local election positions to install conspiracy theorists and election deniers.

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